The strike will involve all staff at the hospital located in the Parque Patricios neighborhood.
This Wednesday, the Garrahan Hospital workers will carry out a 24-hour strike next Wednesday, in search of a 100% salary increase, a minimum salary of $1,400,000, and the rejection of the Income Tax.
The strike is announced under the slogan ”The health of children and the Garrahan are essential”and will be carried out with a “traffic light” on the bridge located over Brasil Street, at 1:00 p.m.
This “traffic light” will have the presence of all the staff of the Buenos Aires hospitalwhere the Association of Professionals and Technicians (APyT) of the Garrahan Hospital also filed an appeal against the Income Tax, while denouncing the lack of dialogue with both national and Buenos Aires City authorities.
It will be a strike “with a lot of support”
The general secretary of the association, Norma Lezamastated that ”the drop in wages is very abrupt and puts us all in a situation of not being able to pay the expenses”, which becomes ”unsustainable for many, leading to the resignation of highly trained professionals, as recently occurred at the regional haemotherapy centre.”
He also gave details Regarding the strike, he believes that it will be “with a lot of support, active, with our presence all day at the hospital, we will sign in and stay in the entrance hall on Combate de los Pozos Street. The situation is terrible, because after having visited the sectors, speaking with our unions, about the fact that they will give us a 1% increase in September and 2% in October, then the truth is that, given the responsibility they have, they could unite and demand.
”What is happening is that waiting times are getting longer, which It is a silent damage for patients” And he added: ”Not everything can be privatized, it is not true that everything can be privatized, public health and especially where knowledge is generated, sometimes in the private sector you find conflicts of interest what is being researched, and in the public sphere, the public hospital, the CONICET, the public university, are like the sentinels of the safeguard that what is being researched, whatever it may be for the benefit of the population, who has the right to quality public health at the same time that integrates all its people.
Finally, he called for “coordinating all these struggles, from universities, university hospitals, from all these sectors where we are defending ‘grandma’s jewels’ as they say, such as the Roffo Institute (oncology, university UBA).” Who has not gone to Roffo for a second consultation, when there is a suspicion of cancer? Well, the Hospital de Clínicas (he listed) are all very important centers where the population is guaranteed the best diagnosis, the indication of the best treatment, that is what we are here for.”.
Source: Ambito
