Translated to English for your convenience
The marchers will protest against the reduction and cuts to the budget, the emptying and closing of programs, and the elimination of the Ministry of Health, among other causes.
This Thursday, the unions linked to the health sector in Argentina will mobilize in a grand federal march in the city of Buenos Aires in defense of public health.
The general secretary of the Federation of Professional Health Syndicates of Argentina (Feprosa), María Fernanda Boriotti, highlighted that participating in the march were “distinct political areas, syndicates, and groups of patients, among others.”
In this thought, it became clear that all the sectors implicated in the march this Thursday will do it “with a common, unified objective of proclaiming the defense of public health as a priority.”
The activity will be replicated in the cities of Rosario, Córdoba, La Rioja, San Juan, Neuquén, and Chaco. Including other provinces who will accompany the shutdown.
Boriotti informed that “the march will count on the presence of workers and employees of the Posadas Hospital, who have been violated daily by the politicians of this government.” In that thought she warned that this it’s a place that, “We’ll use this chance to test the adjustment to, and try to introduce Universal Health Coverage.”
The representative of Feprosa said that the mobilization will serve to express the rejection to the law reform project in the municipal race of health professionals and the different advances of UHC.
Among other claims that will be exposed in the march, one can encounter the reduction and cuts to the budget, the emptying and closing of programs, and the elimination of the Ministry of Health.