After force the resignation of the authorities of the Board of Directors of the Garrahan Hospital for ordering payment of a bonus for staff, the Minister of Health of the Nation, Mario Lugones, defined the new members. The presidency will be occupied by Soraya Anis El Kik. While 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 “pediatric doctor specialist in hospital administration and has been working at the hospital since 1989.” In the case of Dalmazzo, is counter public and comes from “being director of the hospital, a position he also held previously. Menehen performs “as pediatric doctor and pulmonologist” and has worked at the hospital since the late 1980s.
According to the information provided by the Ministry of Health, the new ones appointments HE “will be formalized in the next few hours.”
Prior to the appointments, the Minister Lugones had requested the resignation of the Hospital’s Board of Directors for deciding “without consultation and without prior evaluation with the health portfolio” to grant a $500,000 bonus.. From the ministry they clarified that the payment of the bonus for the hospital staff “was made this afternoon, with the exception of the members of the Board of Directors.”
Garrahan workers warn of “a tsunami of indignation” if they reverse the bonus
The statement issued by the portfolio came after the Association of Professionals and Technicians (APyT) of the Garrahan Hospital had come out against Lugones’ statementswho requested the resignation of the Board of Directors of that pediatric center. “If (Luis) Caputo and Lugones mess with the 500 thousand pesos bonus they will unleash a tsunami of indignation in Garrahan,” they said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the general secretary of the Association of Professionals and Technicians, Norma Lezana He warned that Lugones’ statements “are not surprising” because “he is a representative of private health. His conception is health as a business and that is why he is ‘shocked’ that the Garrahan staff receives a one-time bonus of 500 thousand pesos.” .
““He is going to earn several million pesos per month as a civil servant, and he does not live with a salary below the poverty line like those of us who support the most important highly complex pediatric hospital in South America every day.”considered Lezana. Furthermore, the representative of the hospital’s technical and professional staff maintained that “we have been in conflict for 7 weeks” and “we achieved the announcement of this bonus that we consider a step forward, but insufficient.”
“We do not pay ‘one-time’ rent, or utilities, or transportation, or food expenses for our families. That’s why We demand that it be incorporated into the basic salary of all staff“emphasized the general secretary of APyT.
Likewise, Lezana anticipated a “tsunami of indignation” at the pediatric hospital. “We anticipate Lugones, Caputo and the entire national government: if they mess with the Garrahan, if they block the bonus, if they think they are going to scare us, they did not understand anything at all and they are going to unleash a tsunami of indignation.”
Lezana ratified the forceful measures announced for October 8 and 9, which include a mobilization to the Ministry of Economy.
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Mario Lugones asked him to resign from the Garrahan Board of Directors
In line with the recipes of President Javier Milei, This Wednesday, Lugones asked the five members of the Garrahan Hospital Board of Directors to resign after granting a bonus of $500,000. for all staff. The decision was motivated after warning that the salary compensation granted “does not correspond to the salary guideline set by the national State.”
According to Ministry sources, the Garrahan Council defined this measure “without consultation and without prior evaluation” and without the authorization of the new minister. Along the same lines, they assured that the workers of the pediatric hospital express their dissatisfaction with the body because they receive income of $5.5 million, a figure that is vastly higher than the salaries of the employees.
The premise of Lugones, successor of Mario Russo and man of extreme confidence of the presidential advisor Santiago Caputois that officials who manage health “must commit to the responsible management of public accounts and manage resources with the aim of improving the quality of services in compliance with the zero deficit objective established by Milei.”
This is Lugones’ first measure after taking office, after Russo announced his departure last Thursday.
Source: Ambito
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