Health workers agreed on Tuesday to keep the room intermediate in their pressure measures until next Monday, so attention in public hospitals will be normal throughout the week. The service was restored on Friday, after two weeks of consecutive unemployment, which generated A delay in the care that is reflected in long lines, especially patients seeking to reschedule their consultations.
This Tuesday, hundreds of patients spent the night outside hospitals. In San Juan de Dios, the tail extended to the next block. They were mostly sick who had lost their chips these days of unemployment And they sought to reprogram appointments, in addition to others who tried to access medical care to initiate treatments.
Some carried two days in linewithout getting the long -awaited reprogramming.
Marcos Rojas arrived at 3:00 in the morning and, to his surprise, there were already patients waiting. Some had passed the night standing, supported on the walls of the hospital; others, lying or sitting on the floor. He wore a quilt to protect himself from the cold.
“It is the second day that happened the night in line and I have not been able to manage to reprogram my consultation for the cardiologist,” he claimed annoying, upon learning that there were no quotas for the specialist, later of more than five hours of waiting.
Rojas had a consultation for the previous week, when the workers were unemployed. I had pursued that appointment for a month, After being derived from a health center. “They do they want it, They play with people’s health and nobody does anything, ”he protested.
Long rows were also due to the fear of many patients that health workers retake unemployment. Initially, the intermediate room I was only planned for three days; However, thanks to intermediation From the Ombudsman’s Office, it extended until next Monday.
“I wish I can get a form for the endocrinologist. My mother needs to adjust the medication because her sugar (glycemia) is uncontrolled and It has already decompensated. We have not been able to go to a clinic because the consultation costs Bs 300 And we have no money, ”said a woman who rated to her mother’s mind.
The agreement
Health workers gave until August 18 as a last deadline for the payment of the vaccination bonus to be effective.
A first consensus was achieved last Thursday, after a meeting at the Pro Santa Cruz Committee With departmental authorities and representatives of the health sectorwhere the mobilized agreed to lift unemployment until Tuesday.
The departmental delegate of the Ombudsman’s Office, Sheila Gómez, said the institution It has remained in the mediation of this conflict and other demands of the sector.
He informed that on Monday, at 11:00, they will meet again at the delegation facilities Departmental defender, where they will give an effective response that allows us to definitively lift The mobilization.
The vice president of the Civic Committee, Agustín Zambrana, through his social networks, confirmed that the Government received a letter from the Ministry of Health, where they informed him about the availability of economic resources for the payment of per diem of workers in the sector.
“The government letter owed Bs 29 million to Santa Cruz for the vaccination bond was officially arrived at the Government of Santa Cruz. Now the Government must convene the Health Commission of the Departmental Legislative Assembly and approve the payment, so that the venues proceed to cancel to the health sector, ”says the post that accompanied him with a photo of the letter.
The document indicates that the conciliated amount of Bs 9.436,038.94 is available, So they were waiting for the Government to transfer of the remaining amount of Bs 13,095,888.00, to proceed with the payment of the Vaccination and Skilot of Management 2025.
“We summon the authorities not to expect these measures (stoppages), but take timely actions to respond to workers already the population, ”insisted the defender.
According to the sector leadership, They are more than 10,000 Health workers waiting for the cancellation of the bonus.
