The closure of Casa de Galicia was a horrible “Christmas gift” for the thousands of workers of the mutual just before the holidays, said one of its employees this Thursday when they learned that the Justice had ordered its definitive closure.
The person in charge of notifying the workers was the Undersecretary of Health, José Luis Satdjian, since Minister Daniel Salinas is on vacation, and transmitted what the court ruling says: that the receivership that was in charge of the health home , which had been strongly questioned by the Uruguayan Medical Union (SMU), as well as by the Uruguayan Health Federation (FUS), found that “the flow of funds at the end of the current month shows a negative balance of 100 million of pesos “and that the panorama of” bankrupt crisis “left no other option but the definitive and immediate closure.
“It would have been possible to obtain a path towards termination in a less abrupt way, and that would not affect the attention of the users, as well as the employment situation of the workers, if it had counted on the collaboration of the State who, through ASSE, and as indicated by the receivership, should have enabled in the SIIF all the invoices owed to Casa de Galicia, until completing the sum of 29,922,000 pesos “, adds the resolution of the Justice, adding that” unfortunately the situation today is different, with the addition of union measures that will paralyze care at all levels ”.
“What they are doing is really ruthless,” said the president of the union, Flor Constanzo, in statements collected by The country, who saw that the decision “had no mercy on the date that is.”
“A Christmas in which not only do you not collect the Christmas bonus, but you also lose your job (…) 1,300 colleagues are left on the street,” remarked the official and union member.
Members will be absorbed by other mutualists
The Administration of the State Health Services (ASSE) will be in charge of the administration of Casa de Galicia during the closing process. The emergency services function normally in the meantime, as well as the Cardiovascular Center, which is a Highly Specialized Institute of Medicine (IMAE).
Outpatient care is immediately suspended and members will be transferred to other mutuals.
