The leadership of the Association of Workers of the Hospitals of the City of Buenos Aires (CABA) denounced that There are already more than 100 health workers laid off in Buenos Aires hospitalsand demanded from the head of government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, an “urgent dialogue table” to seek a solution to the conflict, union spokesmen reported.
“The workers of the Ramos Mejía Hospital denounce the new layoffs and the lack of nursing staff to care for patients in the hospital services,” Luis Ledesma, a member of the City Hospitals Association grouped in ATE, told Télam.
The trade unionist remarked that “there are 35 dismissed workers, among whom many are women who are the sole breadwinners“.
“They were all essential colleagues in the face of the pandemic and today the government of (Horacio Rodríguez) Larreta pays them with this currency and leaves them on the street, without work,” Ledesma considered, while denouncing that these political decisions ” They are part of the whims of Larreta, who is not interested in having a better health system.
“They were all essential colleagues in the face of the pandemic and today the Larreta government pays them with this currency and leaves them on the street, without work”
The delegate at the Ramos Mejía Hospital denounced that “there are more situations of dismissed workers: 65 in the Durand (Hospital), 35 in the Ramos Mejía, and continue in other hospitals, (Pedro) Lagleyze Ophthalmological Institute 8 dismissals, in the IREP (Psychophysical Rehabilitation Institute) with 11 dismissals, in the Rivadavia four.
“They continue to lay off layoffs so that it is not noticed and that society does not see that Larreta is eliminating all the workers who were essential during the pandemic,” he added.
“Unfortunately those colleagues are being left out of the labor system, more workers who become part of the poverty line, people who will be left without social work and coverage. The head of government (Horacio) Rodríguez Larreta is only interested in real estate businesses and running for president, but he does not solve the Caba’s dramas,” denounced the ATE leader.
For his part, the head of the Association of Hospital Workers of the City of Buenos Aires, Héctor Ortiz, had already denounced last week the “massive dismissal” of more than 65 health workers in different care centers in Buenos Aires.
In statements to Télam, the union leader and general delegate of the employees of the Hospital Durand (ATE) assured that the workers “are outraged with what is happening” in the public health sector of the City of Buenos Aires.
“We live a nightmare. Nothing hurts or moves the head of the Buenos Aires government (Horacio Rodríguez Larreta). Now they went for more than 65 health workers and they have been fired as the worst. It was these workers who gave their lives in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic “he claimed.
The union leader evaluated that the Buenos Aires Executive carries out “a policy of punishment for health workers, nurses and nurses.”
Ortiz warned that the sector is experiencing a “distressing situation” in the Durand Hospital and other hospitals in Buenos Aires, “since this week we found a list of layoffs of 65 male and female colleagues, and today we learned that there are many more” in other establishments. .
