2023-06-23 22:09:00
Almost a month following the escalation of tension due to the exodus of doctors at the Hospital del Niño de San Justo, La Matanza, the only pediatric health center in that area west of the Buenos Aires suburbs, the administrative and health personnel warn that yesterday they removed their director, Ana Castrucci, they initiated a summary, and suspended her from her duties for 60 days. Although they did not appoint a replacement in his place, they did incorporate a person as intervener.
With a popular pot in front of the hospital guard, the workers today demanded improvements in salary conditions and denounced that for a month the massive resignation of doctors and nurses has persisted, who, according to what they said, There are already more than 40 professionals who left their positions.
The hospital staff also requested that there be more budget for the health area and that no salary remain below the poverty line. “We meet in support of the workers, for the miserable wages we have, and to defend free, quality public health. The community currently does not have access to the only pediatric hospital of the third level of attention of La Matanza. We are still waiting for answers, ”she claimed in dialogue with THE NATION Graciela Amarilla, graduate in nursing and part of the hospital staff that depends on the administration in charge of Fernando Spinoza.
Regarding the reason why she still works at the municipal medical institution, Amarilla specified: “Those of us who stay do so because we love our hospital, we don’t want to leave. We want them to leave, those who manage badlythose who divert resources and items that are for health”.
Although this outlet tried to communicate with the health authorities of the Municipality of La Matanza which, according to a spokesperson told THE NATIONthey were preparing an official statement, at the time of closing this note they had not received their testimony.
With a popular pot in front of the hospital guard, the workers denounced the massive resignation of doctors and nurses who, according to what they specified, already total more than 40 professionals who left their positions
Mayor Espinoza announced last April a 70% salary increase for municipal employees. However, the workers of the Hospital del Niño de San Justo indicated that this is not real, and reported that the increases amounted to only 40%: they received 18% in March, 6% in May, another 6% in June and 10 % planned for July.
Without counting bonuses or the extras of each one, the basic salary of a nurse, according to Amarilla, is almost $65,000. In the case of doctors, they charge $1,300 per hour. “We earn around $132,000 with non-remunerative bonuses, which do not include retirement, Christmas bonuses, or scheduled increases. The total must add up to $250,000 a month, ”he explained to LA NACIÓN Sandra Verta, a pediatrician specializing in internal medicine, and a member of the hospital’s internal commission.
“We want a basic of $210,000, that the payment of the professional title be respected, that our seniority be respected, and that they recognize us as a nursery for the children of employees, which at the time there was and now there is no more,” Amarilla stressed. .
Without counting bonuses or the extras of each one, the basic salary of a nurse is around $65,000; In the case of doctors, they charge $1,300 per hour. Ricardo Pristupluk – La Nacion
Due to lack of medical and nursing staff, the Hospital del Niño de San Justo is open, but on-call care is closed. Only emergencies and referrals are received. There is no control of healthy children or follow-up of those who were discharged, such as patients with convulsions or heart disease.
Laura Verzoletti is a biochemist at the hospital and is part of its internal commission. detailed to THE NATION that in specialties such as neurology, psychiatry and pulmonology, there are practically no specialists. “There are many neurological patients, but there was only one neurologist who comes twice a week. There are specialties such as hematology, in which the only professional is regarding to retire in months, and his position will remain vacant. The few specialists that remain is because they are captive: they are old people who do not want to look for another job and are waiting to retire”, he indicated.
According to him, one of the most critical specialties is mental health. Although there is a specific hospitalization service in the hospital, the biochemist specified that there is only one psychiatrist left, and that they are trying to put together an interdisciplinary team.
And added: “There is only one pulmonologist, in the midst of a peak of respiratory pathologies, which also only attends emergencies. There should be 15 doctors in the outpatient clinic, and There are only three pediatricians to attend the pediatric office of the entire municipality”.
Pediatrics emerges as one of the specialties that presents the greatest difficulties to fill its positions, which this year offered 837, and that, even if all the applicants approved, there would still be 40% of vacant positionsAlejandro Guyot – LA NACION
how is he posting THE NATION In the series of notes “Who is going to take care of us?”, the Argentine health system is less and less attractive for health professionals and the crisis in which it is immersed is evident, linked to what is most valuable for quality in attention: your human resource.
As well as what happens in the health center of La Matanza, the situation in the Sister Maria Ludovica Children’s Hospital, in the city of La Plata, is also critical, dependent on the provincial government. There, the Association of Professionals with the heads of service, ward and unit denounced “an unstoppable exodus” of pediatricians, as in other specialties. They affirmed that the low salary -an entrant to the plant receives $210,000 for 36 hours a week, without guard- pushes them to add new jobs, with a level of professional burnout that suffers from attention. At the end of May, nearly 50 doctors resigned to work in districts where they are better paid.
Regarding medical residencies, pediatrics emerges as one of the specialties with the greatest difficulties in covering their positions, which this year offered 837, including places articulated with neonatology or intensive care. THE NATION detailed in a note last week that even if all applicants passed the exam, 40% of the positions offered would remain vacant. The same applies to clinical medicine, general and/or family medicine, intensive therapy, child and adolescent psychiatry or neonatology, a specialty in which 36 vacancies are offered and there are only six applicants.
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