Going into the sixth month of 2024, the Entre Ríos government has already made disbursements for more than 25,000 million pesos in concept of items for hospitals, health centers and the payment of guards and benefit modules.
During the first half of the year, the Entre Ríos government had to make a significant economic effort to sustain the response capacity of the public health network’s providers.
In a harsh context, in which there have been significant increases in the cost of the provision of energy, medication, fuel (essential to keep the transfer units active) and food (with the important impact that this section has on institutions with hospitalization), between December 11 and June 11, 19,504,674,915 pesos to the 65 hospitals that make up the provincial public network (and the De la Baxada Hospital Dra. Teresa Ratto) in concept of operating and reinforcement items.
The figure also includes the starting reinforcements sent to different Entre Ríos hospitals to face court orders. To mention just one example that illustrates the impact that these measures have on the public treasury, it can be noted that in the month of May the San Antonio de Gualeguay hospital had to receive a reinforcement item of more than 77 million pesos to be able to cover the treatment of a patient who requires high-cost medication.
For its part, to sustain the benefits of the 208 first level care establishments of provincial dependency (which includes the Regional Reference Centers, the Primary Health Care Centers and the Health Posts), from January to May 2024, operating items were assigned for a total of 574,423,000 pesos.
In the period from January to May, 4,929,881,447 pesoscorresponding to the payment of performance modules and of the active and passive guards that the professionals of the Health Care Professional Career carried out in hospitals and health centers in the province. Here it is worth clarifying that The amount of the guard duty includes the percentage increases in the salary guideline set by the provincial government, which is why it is updated following the same.
