Nicolás Kreplak asked to take measures to avoid contagion after the rise in cases, which causes delays in care and conflicts due to the lack of doctors. The official's words come amid high demand for pediatricians and severe delays in medical care at the GBA.
"The problem is salaries, 130,000 pesos per month. Nobody wants to go," said Romina Mutti, a pediatric intensive care kinesiologist at Children's Hospital. "In Spain or England they need doctors, there they cannot form the flow of doctors who are trained here," he said.