The Ministers of Health, Carla Vizzotti, and of Women, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, They honored the teams of health workers “for their exceptional work during the pandemic,” andn the framework of the cycle “We Move the World-Towards Equality” held in commemoration of the International Day of Working Women, reported the health portfolio.
The more than 30 workers honored highlighted in research, sexual and reproductive health, access to Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy IVE/ILE, primary care, community health promotion, comprehensive health care for transvestites, trans, intersex, non binaries, the management of public health and the care of patients with Covid-19, among other.
“We do this act with a lot of love, with a lot of desire to recognize and value the work of women in an unprecedented situation worldwide that challenged all of humanity,” said Vizzotti, who stressed that for women the pandemic also meant a complex experience.
“For us it is always more difficult, and requires a quota of more effort, work, exposure, dividing up time, and sometimes also more violence,” she explained.
In that sense, the head of the health portfolio highlighted “horizontal and collaborative work” carried out between all the ministries, the provinces, the municipalities and the territory to respond to the pandemic.
The minister also valued the work of the researchers in the development of a nationally produced vaccine.
For its part, Gomez Alcorta, defined health workers as “great heroines” and stressed that “thanks to those who are here and to all the health workers who throughout our country had a fundamental task in this complex time, today we can continue to recover some of the order of our lives.”
“You have shown that life is at the center of all things and you have done a lot to take care of the lives of everyone. For this reason, in addition to this simple recognition, I want to thank you personally as a woman and as an official,” said the minister.
Workers from the Ministry of Health of the Nation were also recognized; of the National Administration of Laboratories and Institutes of Health “Dr. Carlos Malbrán”, from the National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology (Anmat); work teams for the care of Covid-19 patients; and representatives of the Federal Health Council (Cofesa).
