The tension between brand new minister and the medical institution began after the Garrahan board announced a $500,000 bonus for hospital staff. At the same time, Lugones also appointed the new members of the Board of Directors.
Given this, the hospital announced a measure of force that includes a 48 hour strike on October 8 and 9 that will affect care in the hospital. The main demand among employees of the medical institution is that of a 100% salary increase and a starting salary of $1,400,000.
The general secretary of the ATE Internal Board and worker of the Garrahan Hospital, Alexander Lipcovichassured that the health center workers agree that “the conflict, far from appeasing, will continue”.
“The officials who were fired were people appointed by the Government itself and now they are replacing them with more people who were in the same universe as those who decided to give the bonus,” he detailed about Lugones’ decision to replace the hospital board.
Furthermore, regarding the arrival of the new minister, Lipcovich stated: “They took (Mario) Russo out to put the one who was already the minister in the shadows“, he said, while adding: “The outgoing officials had resolved to give this bonus. for decompress the conflict that already existed previously“.
The replacements named by Mario Lugones
The Minister of Health of the Nation, Mario Lugones, defined the new members of the Board of Directors of the Garrahan Hospital. The presidency will be occupied by Soraya Anis El Kikwhile Roberto Agustín Dalmazzo and Jorge Menehem They will take over as advisors.
According to sources from the portfolio led by Lugones through a press release, Anis El Kik is “specialist pediatrician doctor in hospital administration and has been working at the hospital since 1989.” Regarding Dalmazzo, who is a public accountant, the Government explained that he comes from “be director of the hospitala position he also held previously.” Finally, Menehem serves “as pediatrician and pulmonologist“and has worked at the hospital since the late 1980s.
In his first measure, Lugones assured that the new appointments were “will be formalized in the next few hours“. Despite the conflict over the additional, the ministry clarified that the bonus payment for hospital staff was held on Wednesday afternoon, “with the exception of members of the Board of Directors“.
Source: Ambito
