Closure of the Bonaparte Hospital: workers’ vigil

2024-10-05 19:11:00

After the announcement of the closure of Laura Bonaparte Hospital According to the Ministry of Health, the workers kept vigil and remained in the institution. In various media they told how they discovered the news and questioned the president. Javier Miley.

The hospital specializes in mental health treatment. Employees of the institute initiated a complaint on Friday afternoon in the vicinity of the building due to the announcements of cuts to hospital admissions and on-call services over the weekend where patients, many of them children and teenagers, are currently hospitalized.

Soledad Bordalecou, ​​​​one of the professionals at the medical center, said he was informed of the closure of the guard and hospitalizations during a hearing held on Friday at 2pm. “We didn’t expect this at all.” And he added: “Three months ago they fired 29 professionals, they didn’t renew their contracts and now they tell us that the hospital will close completely”.

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Consequently, the healthcare staff organized themselves to ask and invite the company to join the demonstration through a statement on social networks, which explains: “The hospital workers in a general meeting decided stay at work and invite all citizens, users, family members, professionals, civil associations, trade unions, neighborhood assemblies and the entire community to unite in the fight and defense of the hospital and public health.

Meanwhile, the ministry reported that the public health center has an annual average of 19 daily hospitalizations. “The indicators relating to the amount of care and consultations are very low compared to what one would expect from a hospital with general services,” they reported. Professionals denounce that the closure of the hospital will leave “thousands of mental health patients, including girls, boys and adolescents”, without treatment.

The head of the State Workers Association (ATE), Rodolfo Aguiar, said on Friday that they will take over the plants. He also added that the government’s decision to close hospitals generates conflict. “The measures of force will begin to be harsher and this happens under the exclusive responsibility of the Executive”he warned.

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“It must be clear that we defend almost 700 jobs, but this is not a corporate defense. We defend the right of people to have free and free access to the healthcare system, and of the girls and boys who until now were treated in this center this year they have already provided more than 25 thousand services”, concluded Aguiar.

Hospital closure announcement

In dialogue with Gabriel Schultz in That’s how it goes for usvia radio Splendid AM 990Joaquín Caporale, operator of the health center located in the Parque Patricios neighborhood of Buenos Aires, assured that a decree with the permanent closure could be published on Monday. Additionally, he estimated there are between 30 and 40 inpatients, who are provided with psychology, psychiatry, social work and occupational therapy services.

Protests against the closure of the Bonaparte Hospital

“This is Milei’s policy, against healthcare and education. He has already fired the workers at the Posadas hospital”I say Corporal.

In communication with Radio Mitra This Saturday, psychiatrist Martín Muntaabski told how he learned of the government’s decision: “We began a second day of vigil, assembly and struggle. Yesterday at noon we had imminent news that left us amazed, the immediate closure of the Bonaparte guard and internment system. They also warned us that the closure notification of our institution would be issued on Monday.”

“We were not told a reason but rather a notification appeared on the official channel regarding the closure of these devices which are trunks. We don’t know the precise reasons,” the professional said.

Regarding the services provided by the Bonaparte Hospital, he explained that it “also offers other benefits, it has a cultural center, a complete health device, kinesiology, health checks, complementary things to address health in a comprehensive way.” And he explained: “We serve a population with moderate to severe mental health problems, with various complexities, including people who are homeless and have psychosocial weakness, who do not have much access to mental health through conventional means due to situation in which they are, one could be consumption and another homelessness.”

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