In the social work clinics affiliated with the Truck Drivers Union, the first thing that catches your eye is the little movement that occurs since early morning, unlike any other hospital or clinic. On departure, patients or their families agree that the care provided by specialists is “excellent”. Of course, as long as there are specialists for the practice they need and there are shifts according to the certificates I collected Nation During a tour of service providers run by Hugo Moyano’s wife. They crave that “what it was like years ago” coverage.
This week, staff posted signs at at least two sanitariums in… Social work for truck drivers (Uchuka) to report late payment of their salaries. But members with more than 15 or 20 years of contributions agreed today that the problem is not new: it began more than a decade ago, already in the administration. Liliana ZoletShe, the wife of the truck driver, has caused, and continues to do so, the resignation of professionals and caused administrative chaos that translates into the distances they have to travel to receive care, obtain a permit, or go to the guard.
“We are from Ciudad Evita and they sent me to the Constitución headquarters to get a permit and to Caseros for an X-ray. Medical coverage dropped from 80% to 50% or 30% with what we contribute to social work every month,” a couple complained as they left the guard on Paraguay Street at 2100, in San Justo.
It’s in close proximity to the San Justo Sanatorium, located on Juan Manuel de Rosas Street at 3200 of that main city. Murder. “I have to ask for a day’s work to accompany my wife because everything cannot be done in one place,” the man said as he descended the stairs to reach the guard.
He stated that with the spread of problems in paying social work salaries in recent days, supplies such as paper appeared or they returned to delivering x-rays. In fact, he was holding one in his hand. In previous consultations, if they wanted a copy, he said they had to take a photo with their cell phone.
In the outpatient clinic area of that clinic, patients reported that there was a shortage of specialists in diabetes, neurology, kinesiology, rheumatology, and others. “Even the dentist is missing. There is no pediatrician on call,” explained one member with arthritis who had just left the clinic doctor’s consultation. She and her husband said they decided to pay out of pocket for care with her rheumatologist and kinesiologist and with his gastroenterologist. “They changed my shift from Wednesday to Wednesday, because there is only one gastroenterologist and he cannot handle it,” he said. Nation He promised to protect their names.
The woman commented: “At the headquarters in San Jose (1700 hours), in Constitución, you have the specialties, but everything is full. For the recipes, I just have to go from San Justo to Constitución.”
The employees who complained this week about non-payment left the premises today without wanting to mention the problem or being unaware of it. The same thing happened in Sanatorio Antártida, in Ochoca, in the Caballito neighborhood of Buenos Aires. At the nine-storey mass, the authorities chose to remain silent in response to consultations Nation On the site about the services provided on the site.
Neither in Ochoka nor in the union wanted to refer to the performance of social work. Even in the health union to which the clinic’s employees belong, they preferred this morning not to talk about the crisis facing truck drivers’ coverage. They noted, “Today there is no conflict. The asylums are working well.” In fact, as these media learned during the tour, what has been resolved is this month’s payment and therefore, as with other funders and health providers, these delays will be implemented in the coming months.
Although the social work includes on its website in the list of its centers Sanatorio 15 de Diciembre, in the Liniers district, a few meters from Juan B Justo Street, the place has stopped treating patients since a flood caused by a strong storm 12 years ago. “It is used for administrative tasks,” the security personnel responded kindly.
The facade on the ground floor is covered with wood and you have to ring a bell on a black door. When the place was destroyed by water, child care, labor and obstetric care, with 24-hour security, was not re-established, and she ended up being transferred to the San Justo Sanatorium.
“I had my babies there,” recalls Daniel, another member. He had just signed on to hospitalize his father, a retired truck driver, in San Justo. “But they told me there was no bed,” he lamented. The medication they once provided during hospitalization, they now ask him to buy and bring when there is a bed available. The father suffers from a rare disease that makes his blood thicker. He added, “We have been serving here for 15 years. During these years, the best professionals have left.”
Daniel suffers from high blood pressure and complains of “the lack of a cardiologist,” in addition to the lack of appointments and specialists in the specialties that members desperately need. “Everything is very stressful in this social work,” he described.
In the Caballito neighborhood of Buenos Aires, a few meters from Rivadavia Park, security personnel controlled the main entrance leading to the Antartida Sanatorium to the utmost. They searched wallets, bags and backpacks. But no more than five patients passed by after nine o’clock for an hour. In the large chairs on the ground floor, relatives of hospital patients were waiting for news. In the hall, a huge hanging chandelier stands out with lights accompanying large portraits of Evita and Perón.
And on the way back, those that will be designed as guardhouses or outpatient clinics, depending on who is asked, are still not possible, and are under construction, despite the successive openings in more than a decade and a half of this luxurious health center on Rivadavia Street. Within it, patients point out the class of its facilities and equipment. Through their stories, surgeries, some studies and hospitalizations are performed there. The driver of the only ambulance that stopped for a few minutes at the sidewalk in front of the main entrance removed the samples into a container.
“The Liniers, Villa Martelli and Avellaneda sanatoriums are not working. Members from the northern and southern regions have to go to Burzaco or San Giusto for treatment, where there is a shortage of specialties and the shifts are very late. You can go at noon and they give you overtime, but you have to wait for them to treat you and that can take hours. He held in his hand the result of a chest X-ray, which was done after an ECG and blood analysis “The attention of the staff is excellent but the social work is bad. “It’s not like it used to be,” he said before continuing on his way.
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