He 50th Argentine Congress of Cardiology allocated a table of almost two hours of debate, entitled “Cardiology in danger“, in which all actors in the health system will participate, with the aim of generating consensus and finding solutions to a problematic that threatens the quality of patient care and the future of cardiology in our country.
It was organized by Argentine Society of Cardiology (SAC) and is the fourth international congress, due to the quality of its exhibitors and the number of registered participants. It will take place from October 16 to 18 at the La Rural Fairgrounds of Buenos Aires and the presence of the health ministersMario Lugones (Nación) and Fernán Quirós (City of Buenos Aires), among others close to the health system.
“The situation has reached a limit and the cardiology care of our country is in a dramatic crisis“stated the congressional authorities, focusing on the patient and the human resources for their care, made up of doctors, nurses and technicians, among others, while recognizing that the current focus is placed in the financingwho manages the resources and how they manage them.
“We are passing the worst scenario that we have any memory. Even in the crisis of 2001 we had numerous medical personnel, trained specialists and viable institutions. Everything has been deteriorating and today we don’t have it,” said the doctor Pablo Stutzbachpresident-elect of the SAC and president-elect of the Organizing Committee of the 50th Argentine Congress of Cardiology.
The key points of the debate
A recent survey shows that “the 60% of cardiologists with an average age of 47 years, with an average of 12 years of training, is willing to emigrate if you get something interesting abroad. Even 3 out of 10 have thought about quitting medicine. More than 8 out of 10 recognize that due to economic limitations It is decreasing its ability to reform and update itself. And nearly 60% of those surveyed perceive that work overload can affect the quality of their medical care,” the doctor noted. Victor Mauropresident of the SAC.
Stutzbach suggests that one of the problems within the health system is given by the costs of new technologieswith the addition that today many diseases are detected and treated that were previously undiagnosed and had no treatment, but “this has an economic cost that overflows the system and the adjustment variable ends up being the cardiologists and their salaries.
Cardiologists recognize that people live much longer than they did 50 years ago: new drugs, devices, complex interventions and diagnostic methods are more efficient, but at the same time more sophisticated and expensivewhich generates a multifactorial crisis, with health spending that is not updated.
What happens with residences in our country
Another topic that will be debated is the drop in interest in medical residencies in general and cardiology in particular. Most representatives of prestigious private institutions have had difficulty or have not been able to fill resident quotas, in addition to noticing a drop in global academic profile of the applicants.
“As medicine in general is a profession extremely demanding in training and permanent updating, people look for more comfortable or shorter paths,” said Stutzbach and added: “Rather than being left out of the residence “It was playing in another division, not in the first division, today that doesn’t happen.”
Another of the problems that stood out was the territorial inequalitywhere “we found two highly complex centers very close and towns where patients must travel 200 km to access specialized care. Lack of foresight and planning when strategically distributing hospital centers geographically and proportionally,” Mauro explained.
Another topic that will surely be the subject of debate is given to the professionals who form in our country and then they emigrateto their countries of origin if they are foreigners, or to new markets if they are Argentinian. “The best are leaving, it is a drain that affects the system and endangers cardiology“, they concluded from the SAC.
Source: Ambito
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