The Fourth Chamber of the Court of Justice declared the popular action presented by the Association of Cancer Patients and Volunteers of Santa Cruz against the strikes that affect the attention in hospitals public. The failure guarantees continuous care for patients with chronic diseasess.
Sebastián Bauer, patient lawyer, reported that justice granted the protection of the protection of the protection of the three days of the three levels of government, the unions and the patients, in order to establish protocols that prevent protocols that prevent The suspension of services in specialized centers in chronic diseases.
“When there is a health unemployment, officials do not have to stop in hospitals that attend chronic evils, such as oncological, where cancer patients are received, as well as in centers that attend renal patients or with lupus,” he explained.
For its part, Lihetzer Zetene, Representative of the Association of Patients with Cancer and Volunteers, requested compliance with the corresponding instances.
Roxana Velasco, also a spokeswoman for cancer patients, indicated that there are patients from provinces and who, because of the constant strikes, have had to reschedule their consultations and treatments up to ten times.
“We understand that who works it to receive a salary, but at least the Oncological Hospital should not stop. In the end, officials will receive their salary or their bonus; however, we will end up looking for a drawer. We have no money to go to a private center,” he said.
Analysis
Constitutionalist María Elena Attard explains that this action benefits the right to access to public healthespecially of patients with high vulnerabilidAD.
It emphasizes that There are jurisprudential history of the Constitutional Court, in 2019, QHe says that health personnel have the right to strike; However, it cannot suspend attention by reducing emergencies, because the operation of the services must be continuous.
This ruling is of immediate compliance, but by procedure it will review the Constitutional Court, which can grant the guardianship or deny it, but believes that supervision is important.
This popular action has application throughout the country.
