01/11/2021 7:43 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 01/11/2021 20:03
Concerned about the reformulation of the Health system proposed by Cristina Kirchner and the possible progress of the Government on union social works, the members of the CGT small table held a meeting at the UPCN headquarters and released a statement in which they claimed the guild administration during the pandemic,
complained about rising costs and issued a warning
about eventual reforms.
"Inalienable rights such as health must be
defended without political parties
so that each citizen can continue to access a system that is a model in the world in due time and form," they argued at the end of the text.
“
The system is integrated.
Is it necessary to integrate it more?
Of course.
Leftover equipment generates more supply and demand to use it.
It has to do with a regional issue and to complement it ”, assured Héctor Daer, general secretary of the CGT.
"We came to speak with Alberto Fernández before the end of the year, he recognizes that thanks to the infrastructure of the public sector and social security we were able to go through the pandemic without any Argentine being left out of medical care," added the head of the union of Health.
“
We are not going to allow the ideologization of the issue
.
We want a discussion table from the government and a just transition ”,
one of the main leaders
had told
Clarín
.
“The national system of social works continued to provide
comprehensive health coverage to millions of workers
and their families throughout the national territory, without coverage limits or additional costs, ensuring timely and proper access to everything necessary. to face the contingency and rapidly adapting its structures to provide efficient responses ”, was the claim of the CGT to the sector during the pandemic, in the statement released after the meeting in which the host Andrés Rodríguez (UPCN), Héctor participated Daer (Health), Gerardo Martínez (UOCRA), Antonio Caló (UOM) and José Luis Lingeri (Sanitary Works), among other referents of the labor union.
Then they complained about the increase in costs during the pandemic and the drop in income due to the fall in the purchasing power of wages in recent years.
"
Disbursements grew disproportionately
due to the effect of new medical practices, the latest generation drugs and innovation in studies and diagnostic techniques", they advanced with the claim, and marked: "As never before in our history, health was the The main focus of attention and the
need to expand genuine financing
that guarantees adequate care was clearly evident ”.
In another section they insisted on "the need to provide sufficient funds" to the health system, and at the end they asked "to adapt it to present and future challenges."
The unusual emergency call for the small table meeting at the beginning of the summer arose from a
succession of events that worried trade unionists
.
First the call of Cristina Kirchner to reformulate the system -including social works-, then the Government's reversal with the authorization of the increase in prepaid payments and finally the possible return of Liliana Korenfeld to the Superintendency of Health Services (SSS) .
Extremely confident of the vice president, Korenfeld was a deputy for Santa Cruz, an official in that province and maintained a
strained relationship with the unions
for stopping the funds and releasing them in accordance with the alignments with the Casa Rosada.
"
I do not share
, and if I have to tell the vice president personally, I will tell her," Caló said upon entering the meeting, although he differentiated: "We are not in conflict, I endorse this President and this government.
The one with the baton is Alberto Fernández
”.
The head of the UOM defended the administration of social works by the unions: “Since 1970 they are managed by the unions and we have shown that we give health to 17 million inhabitants.
The Government has to worry about underfunding
, as the costs of medicine and technology have increased, and the contributions are always the same ”.
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