Those laid off are part of health service organizations and reference hospitals. The Government clarified that “it does not affect the normal development of functions.”
The Posadas, Bonaparte, René Favaloro and Sommer hospitals; he PAMIhe National Cancer Institute and the Superintendence of Health Services. These are some of the organisms dependent on the Ministry of Healthwhere 1,400 people will stop working. The president Javier Milei celebrated the measure on their networks: “Outside. We continue with the chainsaw. End“.
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The news was made official on social networks by the health organization itself, which noted that the decision was made “within the framework of the restructuring“of the organism, “depending on the rearrangement of their powers and redirect of health policies.” “This measure is in addition to the 30% cut in political positions carried out during the first days of the year and which does not affect the normal development of the functions of the health portfolio“, they stated.


Likewise, they argue that the decision was made “within the framework of the change in their structures and from the identification of irregularities in the hiring of personnel during the previous managementto the duplication of functions and failure to fulfill tasks.” In that sense, they state that “a strategy to optimize human resources” of the Ministry was developed.
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They denounce that the Ministry of Health closed 15 organizations in 2025
Within the framework of the state restructuring that the national government began at the beginning of 2025, the Ministry of Health determined the dissolution of 15 organisms that made up its organizational chart. The decision was announced by the Minister of Health of the province of Buenos Aires, Nicholas Kreplakwho considered that “this was diagrammed and planned.”
The organizations closed by resolution on January 2 were:
- Gender and Diversity Directorate
- National Directorate of Physical Resources
- Directorate of healthy municipalities and communities
- Health Research Directorate
- Interoperability, Standards and Development Directorate
- National Directorate of Integration of the Health System
- Coordination of Medical Equipment and Health Architecture
- Family Health Coordination
- Directorate of Direct Assistance for Special Situations
- Coordination of Appropriate Use of Antimicrobials
- Zoonoses Coordination
- Coordination of Tuberculosis and Leprosy
- Coordination of Viral Hepatitis
- Directorate of Health Information Integration
- Coordination of Epidemiological Surveillance by Laboratories
Layoffs at Sommer Hospital: 150 employees were laid off
ANDl Sommer Hospitalspecialized in rehabilitation and palliative care of adult patients and in the prevention of Hansen’s disease (leprosy)started the year with 150 layoffs. More are expected for the months of February and March. The situation was confirmed by the Secretary of Health of the Municipality of General Rodríguez, Gustavo Tummino, and the Secretary General of the Union of Civil Personnel of the Nation (UPCN)Horacio Bellido.
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Sommer Hospital began the year with 150 layoffs and more are expected in the months of February and March.
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Bellido reported that, from the Nation, they were informed that “due to the public function there cannot be more than 800 workers” and since the hospital has 1,250 employees, including nurses, administrators, professionals and ambulance workers, “there are 400 left over.” In statements to the local newspaper Ladran Sancho, Tummino stated that “It is very sad to see how work power is being dynamited.”
At the same time, he reported that the summer It is an institution “of excellence in many areas” and that promotes “tasks recognized at the provincial and national level”, such as the recent award received in the area of mammography.
“As an institute dedicated to the care of hansen and dermatological treatment is also a place of reference. Palliative care is a very important branch of hospital work, which has an approach from an interdisciplinary point of view,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito

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