A week ago the Association of Clinics and Sanatoriums of Rosario decided to restrict the medical care of Iapos members in the midst of the negotiation with social work and the provincial government for the update of tariffs. With about 600 thousand members who see their access to health compromised, this Monday the unions of state workers made a judicial presentation before the Ombudsman’s Office in search of unblocking the conflict. The Santa Fe Executive specified that the problem has its epicenter in the Rosario department, warned that the benefit “should not be cut” and accused to clinics for using members as a negotiation mechanism.
The restriction of medical care began on Monday, April 22 and after a week the situation did not change. For Juan Pablo Casiello, general secretary of Amsafé Rosario, one of the state unions affected by the cut, the right to health of workers is not guaranteed for the responsibility “of Iapos, the provincial government, and the clinics and sanatoriums that only think about their profits”.
References from the teaching union, public administration employees (ATE) and health professionals (Sipurs) noted that patients cannot access certain practices and studies without paying their full value and that they do not even have the possibility of withdrawing an appointment with their family doctors to prescribe medications. That is why they requested the intervention of the Ombudsman’s Office.
“I am an oncology patient at the Women’s Sanatorium. When I arrive at the surgery I am denied assistance. There are diseases that cannot wait and the result of surgery depends on time. I feel hostage to an economic and political conflict“We need an immediate response,” said a woman from the door of the Ombudsman’s Office in From 12 to 14 (Three).
Although the Santa Fe government recognizes the problem, this Monday the Minister of Economy Pablo Olivares clarified that the discussion between social work and health providers It is “due to the price update” and that the province “has been paying.”
In addition to pointing out that the main sources of conflict due to the cut in care are in the Rosario departments and now also Castellanos, the official stated: “There should not be a cut because we are not facing a discussion of not being able to provide the service.the member is taken as a negotiation mechanism.”
