This Monday, the medical residents and attendees from the City of Buenos Aires will carry out a new day of protests within the framework of the ninth week of strike that the sector advances.
Health professionals They demand a salary increase, for which they advance a plan of struggle for an indefinite period of time. In this framework, the medical residents They will carry out today a protest called “The night of the lights”.
For the event, medical residents They invite all the professionals of the sector to congregate from 8:00 p.m. in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo with candles and lanterns. The appointment will be at the corner of Santa Fe and Juan B. Justo avenues.
In this regard, the workers gathered in the Health Assembly, Residents and Attendees of the Hospitals of CABA expressed: “Tonight, starting at 8:00 p.m., we will continue our plan of struggle.”
And they added: “Today we enter the ninth week of struggle with strike and mobilization and we are going to do it by lighting up the night with our just demands.” In addition to the mobilizations that will take place this week, the Assembly continues with its campaign to collect signatures.
For her part, Carina Goya, resident doctor of neonatology at the Sardá Maternity said: “Today we residents and attendees are beginning our 20th day with an indefinite strike. We continue to demand a decent salary that allows us to face the family basket and salary and ART for attendees”.
And he added: “We call on the entire population to join our demonstration, bring a candle or flashlight and together we make visible the crisis we are going through”.
The conversations with the Government do not advance
Despite constant claims of health workersthe negotiations with the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health stalled, which has caused the strike days to be extended.
Although a few weeks ago the Government proposed an increase of $15,000, the doctors rejected it. Since then there has been no new proposal, so they demand a meeting with Fernán Quirós so that their demands are heard and solutions are proposed.
