2024-03-18 17:01:00
The Health and culture, two sectors affected by the policies of the National Government, came together in a colorful day yesterday Sunday with music and dance in the patio of the Francisco López Lima Hospital, where the workers have been in a camp for eight days.
He The purpose of artists and hospital workers was to promote the health demand on the seventh day of protest once morest decent wages and to repudiate the adjustment in health.
The groups “Amanecer Sureño” and “Tierra, Papel, Chacarera” were presented with their folk music and they brightened the followingnoon, which also had as a special condiment some fried cakes made on the spot.
The Participation in the festival was important throughout the followingnoon from 6 to 9 p.m. with an outdoor patio full of people who came to enjoy. Other state unions, councilors, social and political leaders attended.
For sustain the camp, which for now continues for an indefinite period, The hospitalists launched a donation campaign for the community to collaborate with food and firewood for the workers who stay 24 hours a day.
“We received many donations, which we greatly appreciate”said Romina Díaz, graduate in Intensive Care Nursing and spokesperson for the Workers’ Assembly, in dialogue with Diario RIO NEGRO.
«It was a day that motivated us a lot, it helped us have a moment of joy. Because there are good days, there are days that are weaker.”
Romina Díaz, graduate in Intensive Care Nursing
Díaz assured that the camp will remain “until the government convenes an exclusive health board and offers a true recomposition.”
The claims of the camp at the Roca hospital
«Today the Public Health of the Province of Río Negro suffers an atrocious depletion, which leaves the community, the institutions and their workers in such a critical state that it cannot even ensure the delivery of basic medications in the CAPS and the provision of supplies in the emergency ward and in all hospital services, which “It makes it impossible to provide quality care,” they said this Monday from the Assembly.
They assure that lThe building’s infrastructure is completely deteriorated and the categorization regulations for some services are not met.which has a direct impact on the safety of patients and workers.
To this they add the “very serious salary situation” that all departments of the State and health departments in particular are going through. In the last provincial joint meeting, the government once once more offered “very poor increases” that would not reach 12%, when inflation from December 2023 to February 2024 exceeds 60%, as detailed.
“They continue to encourage us to be slaves to the guards to try to make ends meet, and to continue getting sick and dying inside the hospitals”
Roca Hospital Workers Assembly, statement
“In unity we resist the adjustment on public health workers”, they assured from the union federation Fesprosa Río Negro. In addition, they request the urgent convening of a joint meeting of the health sector.
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