The president of the Medical Assistance Work Institute (IOMA), Homero Giles
, was summoned by Buenos Aires deputies to the Legislature to provide details on different aspects linked to the
suspension of benefits
in health care establishments and lack of medication coverage in some localities of the Buenos Aires province.
In turn, from the Senate, they demanded reports on complaints of
delays in the distribution of oncological drugs
.
The presentation - which requires approval - was made by the deputy of Together for Change
Fernando Rovello
and then the document had the signature of his blockmates.
In the Buenos Aires upper house, the request for explanations - which
also points to the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health
- was promoted by the Senate
Alex Campbell
.
“A conflict has been developing for some time without an apparent solution.
So much so, that
the Medical Federation of the province of Buenos Aires (FEMEBA) has denounced million-dollar debts on the part of the Institute,
cutting benefits to members of several municipalities in the province;
as well as suffering from the lack of medication coverage,” said Rovello.
I REQUESTED THE INTERPELLATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF IOMA
Patients stranded, treatments suspended, medication not delivered and million-dollar debts with providers.
This is the IOMA of @homerogiles and @kicillofok
We demand that Giles explain to us what he did with the affiliates' money.
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— Fernando Rovello (@FerRovello) February 5, 2024
This request was made within the framework of the
health crisis that the province of Buenos Aires is going through.
In the last few hours,
a video went viral
in which a doctor on duty at a Buenos Aires hospital is questioned by patients (with Buenos Aires addresses) who demand to be treated immediately.
These are the consequences of the abandonment of public health in the Province of Buenos Aires: the CABA hospitals collapsed and the health personnel exhausted.
Everyone, Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires, pays for @kicillofok's incapacity.
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— María Eugenia Vidal (@mariuvidal) February 4, 2024
"The service provided by IOMA is getting worse every day: there are no shifts, members have to make co-payments to be treated, doctors have pittance fees and in many places
they refuse to continue providing service
to the Institute," Campbell pointed out in turn. , also from JxC.
And he pointed out a worrying point: "To all this, now we have added
complaints about the lack of delivery of oncological medications
and patients in general with the risks that this implies."
YOU DON'T PLAY WITH YOUR HEALTH,
TAKE CARE OF THE BONAERENSES.
📍In every place I go, in every municipality or town I visit and in the hundreds of messages I receive, neighbors tell me the serious problems they have with IOMA.
❌️They have no benefits, they cannot continue with… pic.twitter.com/gjcfXpRqHc
— Alex Campbell (@AlexCampbellOK) February 2, 2024
"It is total apathy and
there does not seem to be any desire
to resolve it on the part of the Provincial Government," considered the senator, who has been insisting on warning of the provincial health deficit.
News in development.
D.S.