Before the opposition achieved the opinion of the pediatric emergency and put pressure to discuss in the Senate enclosure the project that already has the average sanction of the Chamber of Deputies, the Senator of the PRO for the province of Córdoba, Carmen Álvarez Riveroslaunched a controversial phrase in the plenary of the health commissions; population; and budget which generated crosses with other parliamentarians.
“I, as I say, I don’t think Argentine children have the right to come to the claw to be cured. I don’t know that right anywhere“, He said in one of his first interventions while the Sanitary Emergency of Pediatric Health.
The phrase occurred within the framework made by the head of the Labor and Social Welfare Commission for reorganize the health system throughout the country. In that sense, before the controversial sayings, he said: “The health of the provinces are in their minimum expression. I am ashamed when I go to the hospitals that knew how to be a model in Córdoba and some of the elevators do not go, because management, and Argentine health management, leaves much to be desired, far beyond salaries. ”
He also asked to give the “Debate of competencies“And he clarified:” He is pure of the Senate, what each jurisdiction has to do. It is a debate of the senators that has never been given. Of course, the immediate thing is to discuss resources. Today we are discussing resources. I want resources to come then also for Córdoba, when we serve people from another jurisdiction”
His sayings immediately produced the reaction of other parliamentarians such as Martín Lousteauwho took the floor minutes after Álvarez Riveros and reacted against his phrase. “I think there are other aggrieved, almost insulted in their words,” he began.
And he continued: “A country is unfair when what one has available depends on the place where one is born. That is an unfair country. So, someone says that children in Argentina, when they have a serious pathology, have no right to be treated in the clawgives an idea of how prone to injustice is the head of a person and how far it is of that. ”
“He who has no resources, an distressed father because his son has a very serious illness, we are telling him that he has no right to be treated. Then, It seems to me of a level of grievance and unusual violence”He added.
For his part, Lousteau criticized the idea of “A huge mental paradox, which is that each province has to have NASA”And he said:“ This is not how a health system is organized. Precisely because there are very specific cases that are few, but that the basic infrastructure to be able to give these treatments is very expensive. So, It makes no sense that each municipality has a high complexity hospital”
Meanwhile, Álvarez Riveros He took the floor again, clarified that he was misunderstood and resumed: “The boys operating in the Garraham have nothing to do with that discussion. But we cannot stop understanding that if the health competence is provincial, that there is a hospital paid for all … and that the truth must be told: Who provides more services? To the population of City of Buenos Aires and the AMBA. That’s the majority”
“Why is health of provincial competition? Because people are. It is essential that health be as close as possible. That is a very basic concept,” he completed.
After this debate, the commission plenary signed the opinion that “The health emergency of pediatric health and national health residences of the Argentine Republic for the end of one (1) year”.
One of the articles makes it clear that the mechanism in question will imply “The priority and immediate allocation of budgetary resources for goods for use and consumption, critical suppliesinfrastructure maintenance, medications, vaccines, medical technologies and essential personnel aimed at pediatric care and care in the country ”.
In addition, it is established “the immediate recomposition of the salaries of healthcare and non -care health personnel that attend to the pediatric population with critering and recognition criteria for critical functions”, which includes “to the national health residents of all the specialties that are performed in pediatric and non -pediatric health effectors”. In fact, the “Revosition may not be less than what they received in real terms in November” of 2023.
Another important point is the Eximition “to all health personnel who work in public and private effects of paying profits when they perform critical activities, overtime and/or guards”. As an emblem of this bid, “the Pediatrics Hospital ‘Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan’ as a national reference hospital in high complexity pediatric care” is declared. According to the Congress Budget Office (OPC), The “fiscal impact” from July to December would be $ 65,573 million.
