The workers will also march alongside the student movement to Plaza de Mayo “in defense of the most basic: health and public education.”
After a new assembly, the workers of the Garrahan Hospital decided to carry out a new strike next Tuesday, added to a mobilization from the Congress to the Plaza de Mayo to demand a salary recomposition. Last week they concluded a 48-hour strike.
According to what they announced, the protest on October 22 will also bring together the student movement “White March of health and education.” “More than 30 assemblies resolved to come together with our proposal for unity in defense of the obvious, the most basic: public health and education”, remarked the Garrahan workers.
The Self-convened Garrahan and the Internal Board of ATE Garrahan expressed during the last assembly: “We demand a 100% salary increase against an inflation of 240% in the last yearhaving received only 100%, and 1% and 2% in the last joint elections (of which we are not allowed to participate); We ask for 1,500,000 pesos of initial salary, equal 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 a increase in 24-hour guardswhich are paid 6 thousand pesos an hourhalf that in private ones; and also “We reject the salary tax, among other points.”.
During the assembly, Agustín Romero, a member of the Student Center of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the UBA, participated and joined the Garrahan call. “Close hospitals, empty the Garrahan and attack the public university It is part of a sinister experiment by an anti-everything that is right Government. For this reason, we promote and vote with complete conscience to unify our claim against Milei’s veto and in rejection of Budget 2025 of anti-educational and anti-health adjustment to pay foreign debt, with the Garrahan, the residents, the Bonaparte Hospital and all sectors to oppose this aberration that has attacked us since he took office,” he emphasized.
The Government considered that public hospitals “they should be in the hands of the provinces”
In the midst of the strong conflict with the workers of the Garrahan, the chief of staff, Guillermo Francos, assured that the management of public hospitals “should be in the hands of the provinces”, and considered that health is a “responsibility” of the country’s jurisdiction.
“The issue of hospitals is an issue that we have to clarify as a national policy. Does it make sense for the Nation to be in charge of hospitals or not? Health is a responsibility of the provinces“, held.
In relation to the conflict in Garrahan Hospital and after the Government appointed new authorities on the Hospital’s Board of Directors, Francos stated: “It is an important hospital for the country, because it marks a national policy and We will have to see what is the best way to manage it“.
Source: Ambito
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