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No Te Duermas spoke with Malvina Vila, a dismissed worker from the Posadas Hospital, about the critical situation that some public hospitals are experiencing.
By Ariel Fassio
arielfassio@gmail.com
“It makes us very angry because during the pandemic we had to put our bodies on the line and we did, without saying anything, because obviously we understood that there was a serious situation for the entire population, but it makes you angry because then they dismiss you and when we were needed, we were there and put our bodies on the line.”
“85% of the hospital is contracted. It is a historical demand that we have in the hospital. Imagine that we have a colleague with a 30-year contract who was fired three months ago. I have a 13-year contract, the colleague who is on duty has 11 years. We are talking about decades of hiring and a very strong fight that we have been waging all these years so that a transfer to permanent status is actually made,” she argued.
Dismissals and impermanent contracts
“In this case it is not even a termination of the contract because with previous governments we had an annual contract. With this government we started to have a quarterly contract, but you see that my contract ended on March 31, they fired us on October 16. That is why what I pointed out to you is that there is even a situation that is very irregular, but the entire hospital today has been without a contract since March 31.”
“This is used within the hospital to generate fear, so that no one joins the fight. I will give you a very clear example, the entire batch of 17 dismissals three weeks ago, we were all colleagues who were in solidarity with the previous dismissals, with the residents. So, what the hospital management, the government itself, wants to generate is that the more we support the struggle of those who want to confront the emptying, the more consequences they have and we want to show the opposite,” she clarified.
“We are with the residents, strengthening ties because we have a common fight, and every time we call for actions, the retirees come to support us, that is why we also went to support them this Wednesday, where unfortunately we had to see how they beat up live and direct before our eyes those same retirees who always come to support us, because they use the public hospital and they also have a complaint about their medicines that they cannot buy. How could we not be supporting them when they are always supporting us?”
“I have four more hours of teaching, I am also a literature teacher, language practice, I only have four hours, which is very little. I always had to have another income because I never had enough money to pay the Posadas hospital salary, since that is a situation that has been dragging on, that happens to practically everyone in public health today. So, I don’t have children, but we do have colleagues who have two, three children. I take my hat off because I have colleagues who have been fighting for three months having to support a home and they don’t let up in the fight, because they, although we are promoting a fighting fund, obviously, to be able to resist, because they know that their children are going to be left without a public hospital and that the whole society is going to be left without a public hospital. So, despite how difficult it is at times for my colleagues, they don’t let up. So, I also want to take advantage of this space to say that I vindicate them a lot because everything the government is doing is to make them let up. And here we are, fighting because it is for the whole population,” explained Vila.
The union with other hospitals
“Today, Garrahan is holding a hug because they have a problem and the truth is that they have a lot of strength when they go out to protest. They go out with a lot of unity, something that is enormous, that makes them very strong. They are demanding the salary issue, which is brutal. Well, the residents of the nation earn the same everywhere, it is a misery. They have this salary problem throughout the hospital and they have a lot of unity to face it. They are holding a hug in the framework of a 24-hour strike that started at 7 in the morning. We will be arriving now shortly.”
“What we are going to do is hug Garrahan, they are going to hold a festival today. We are going to support their struggle because we believe that the only perspective that the Posadas hospital has of being able to triumph is together with the companions of Garrahan, it is together with the companions of Bonaparte who showed us a way of how to face this. Imagine, having to face a closure and take a stand, everyone, saying it doesn’t matter who you are affiliated with, they are not going to come to divide us,” he declared firmly.
“We want their struggle to succeed, their struggle is our struggle. We believe that this is the way forward, the unity of all the national hospitals that are the
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