Mario Lugones, the new head of Health, met with the new authorities of the institution and dismissed the workers’ protests.
In the midst of strong salary demands, the new Minister of Cheers, Mario Lugonesreceived the new Board of Directors of the Garrahan Hospitalafter asking the previous authorities to resign, and He assured that the institution “operates completely normally.”
Through its social networks, the Ministry of Health highlighted: “The hospital operates completely normally and both the budget for operation and the provision of inputs are guaranteed and insured“However, Garrahan workers continue to express their discontent with their salary situation.
Garrahan Hospital workers intensify their salary protest
Just 24 hours before the portfolio led by Lugones published this message, the Association of Professionals and Technicians of Garrahan Hospital (APyT) The second day of a 48-hour strike to demand salary improvements ended. In turn, they called for next Tuesday to a new assembly to decide the next union measures.
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The force measures are part of a long plan of struggle. “We demand a 100% salary increase against 240% inflation in the last year, having received only 100%, and 1% and 2% in the last joint elections (of which we are not allowed to participate); we ask 1,500,000 pesos starting salaryequal to the basic basket (today salaries start at 500 thousand for maintenance personnel and 900 thousand for a doctor with 15 years of specialization); We demand an increase in 24-hour guards, which are paid 6 thousand pesos an hour, half that in private ones; and we also reject the salary tax, among other points. Due to these conditions, we are losing highly qualified, irreplaceable personnel!” they noted from the hospital.
In this regard, the general secretary of the APyTNorma Lezana, pointed out that “evidently the national government chose ‘the public’ in its adjustment experiment, with a anti-rights politicsdenialist and anti-popular, attacking flags deeply felt by the entire population, such as pension rights, public universities and health”. “They are playing to the limit,” he warned.
Mario Lugones asked him to resign from the Garrahan Board of Directors for delivering a bonus of $500,000
The new Minister of Health, Mario Lugones, began his administration with a blunt decision: The doctor asked all members of the Board of Directors to resign of the Garrahan Hospital. In detail, the measure was taken after the board of directors granted a bonus of $500,000 for the institution’s staff
According to the Government, this additional was granted without prior consultation or evaluationwhich generated strong discomfort in the Ministry. This way, Lugones debuted fulfilling the maximum mandate of President Javier Mileinot to miss any measure that could affect the “fiscal responsibility.”
Source: Ambito
