The San Juan de Dios Hospital denied some statements by the senator-elect Javier Macaya (UDI), who assured that the former president of the Medical College (Colmed) and current campaign manager of the presidential candidate Gabriel boric (I approve of Dignity), Izkia Siches, owes a scholarship and has not paid it with work in the public health sector.
“A criticism is raised (against Daza), the deputy goes Leonardo Soto (PS) to the Comptroller’s Office, and I am struck by the fact that Izkia Siches (…) has a scholarship pending payment at the San José Hospital ”, expressed Macaya in the program” Zero Tolerance “of CNN Chile.
“When you receive a scholarship from the State of Chile to study your specialty, you have to return it with a job in the public sector. She, in recent years has worked at Colmed and the need to return her is in the care of the public in health, “added the president of the UDI.
The benefit to which Macaya refers is the Mandatory Assistance Period Grant (PAO). According to the Ministry of Health, “it implies the commitment or obligation on the part of the fellow to carry out a care phase following the training period (…) as an official in some establishment of the Health Service”.
Siches herself commented on her Twitter account that “I have never breached my mandatory care period. I work 22 hours in Infectology at the San Juan de Dios Hospital (not at the San José Hospital as Macaya pointed out) and now I am on vacation after my postnatal”.
Once again fear and lies now for Mr. Macaya. I have never breached my mandatory care period. I work 22 hours in Infectology at the San Juan de Dios Hospital and now I am on vacation after my postnatal period. May hope win over fear ??.
– Izkia Siches Pastén ????? (@izkia) November 29, 2021
The hospital complex confirmed in a statement that the former president of Colmed is hired for 22 hours a week.
“The professional completed her training as a specialist in Internal Medicine through the Training of Specialists in Primary Health Care (FOREAPS) program, concluding it in 2017,” added the San Juan de Dios Hospital.
“On January 1, 2018, he began his compulsory care period (PAO), corresponding to 3 years of return on a 44-hour week, as established in the agreement signed for this,” they added.
In addition, they pointed out that in August 2018, Siches made a request to reduce the working day to 22 hours, with an extension of the mandatory care period for the remaining proportional time. The request was accepted by the Director of the Western Metropolitan Health Service.
“The specialist has complied with the working hours established in her agreement at the San Juan de Dios Hospital facilities,” they added.
