Controversy between ASSE and the anesthetists union over the hiring of Argentine doctors

Controversy between ASSE and the anesthetists union over the hiring of Argentine doctors

The Society of Anesthesiology of Uruguay (SAU) said that the Administration of State Health Services (ASSE) There will be a problem with the hiring of Argentine anesthetists since they can leave at any time; On the other hand, he called for improvements in the working conditions of doctors.

This week ASSE announced the call for anesthetists from Argentina to fill vacancies in the Hill Hospital – project that is expected to inaugurate at the end of October with pressure from the government to be executed since it was a campaign promise of the president Luis Lacalle Pou – after two unsuccessful calls by Uruguayan doctors.

With him Surgical Anesthetic Union (SAQ), The SAU assured El País that ASSE is buying into a problem with the hiring of Argentine anesthesiologists. This is because, if the contracting takes place through the Support Commissionthe lairs are not completely covered since the hired doctors could leave at any time and leave the coverage of the Hill vacant.

In this sense, SAU assured that they will meet tomorrow to determine what position to take regarding the problem, since they are waiting for the resolution of the SAQ that meets today.

Why didn’t Uruguayan anesthetists show up?

After two calls for vacancies without success, two possibilities had been considered: one related to the fact that SAU asked its members to do not sign up for the application – which are a total of 450 and represent 95% of the total in Uruguay – although the union denied it.

On the other hand, an estimate that was also denied by SAU is that the sale of services ASSE is determined by an LLC, although they determined that its creation was specifically to present itself to a tender of the Military hospital and after losing it, it was dissolved.

In that sense, the union assured that the phenomenon “would have to be studied” but it would have to do with the Labor conditions and that doctors do not want to expose themselves to situations that compromise them, such as malpractice. “If they don’t give it the necessary infrastructure to work correctly, people won’t show up,” said the president of SAU, Germán Reta.

With this, he assured that the hospital does not have a tomograph and that the trauma center does not comply with the conditions requested by the World Health Organization (WHO). “The impression I get, due to the history of ASSE’s relationship with anesthetists in general, is that they do not know what to do. There is an interest in enforcing the campaign commitments to the president and what really should be analyzed from a technical point of view, which is the relevance or not of a hospital there, especially the type of center,” said the president of SAU.

On the other hand, he stressed that Uruguay is one of the countries of Latin America with more anesthetists per number of inhabitants – completing 14 anesthetists per 100,000 inhabitants – surpassing Brazil and Argentina and assured that the problem is in the poor organization of work in the local system.

Source: Ambito

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