Alegre, a Resident at Garrahan Hospital: "We're Tired of Not Making Ends meet."

CNN Radio Argentina (CNN Radio Argentina) – Guillermo Alegre, a third-year resident at Garrahan Hospital, spoke this Thursday with Mariana Arias's Regreso CNN program about the protest carried out by workers demanding a pay raise for resident physicians. “Today we called a march that left from Garrahan Hospital to the Ministry of Health to demand a salary increase adjusted for inflation and what would be a decent wage,” Alegre explained. He expl…

CNN Radio Argentina Alejandro Lipcovich, general secretary of the Internal Board of ATE at Garrahan Hospital, spoke on CNN Radio this Thursday about the day of protests and mobilizations by doctors at the Argentine pediatric center, saying that "the government insists on attacking workers and is providing absolutely false figures." "The conflict is deepening because the workers' participation is massive. This mandatory conciliation ordered by th…

The staff board, calling for the mobilizations, considers that 'no' 'solutions, but small patches' have been achieved to the problems evidenced. ...

Javier Milei's government issued the compulsory conciliation, amid the plan of 'fight' of residents, doctors and other sectors of the pediatric center.

Manuel Adorni said that the hospital is not unfunded and linked the protest to the imminent implementation of a biometric control system of presence.

Doctor Mauro García began by thanking the possibility of making the problem visible: “The situation has worsened in a very important way, endangering the excellence in health care provided by the Garrahan hospital.” He explained: “This did not start a couple of days ago. It comes from the change of government. The hospital depends on 80 percent of the national budget, and today we continue to operate with the budget 2023. It’s like running at ho…