00:00Argentina's President Javier Milley continues to undermine the public health system.
00:05The government's attempts to eliminate public health care are being met with resistance
00:08from hospital workers themselves, such as those at the Garajan Pediatric Hospital.
00:12Let's see.
00:13The President's plan to destroy public health care continues unabated.
00:20Among those affected is the Garajan Pediatric Hospital, the largest in Argentina and one
00:25of the largest in Latin America.
00:27It treats patients from all over the country with the most complex pathologies, but as
00:31the Argentine government insists on defunding it, the staff at Garajan Hospital insists on
00:35continuing to treat its young patients.
00:41We are in the midst of a plan of action.
00:43We define it as a plan of action because we understand that we must oppose the government's
00:47resistance with an extensive fight.
00:53In the midst of this conflict are the patients.
00:58Patients and their families, like us workers, they experience this tension, this anguish,
01:02and this urgent need for the conflict to be resolved in the hospital because it is already
01:06having an impact on care and families are very sensitive to this.
01:17Last year more than 100 transplants were performed at Garajan Hospital including liver, kidney,
01:22and heart transplants but, who are the patients at Garajan Public Hospital?
01:28In the same room there is a patient whose family has great purchasing power and has the best
01:32health insurance in Argentina and he is lying next to a kid from other part of the country
01:36who doesn't have health insurance.
01:38And how does the government resolve staff complaints?
01:45It is a government that has a methodology of ignoring complaints and responding to legitimate
01:49complaints with insults.
01:51Therefore, it generated more anger within the hospital.
01:58The government seems to fail to understand that Garajan ends up saving almost all lives.
02:06Here we treat all diseases.
02:08The most severe ones, the rarest ones, those that cannot be diagnosed even in private clinics
02:12of excellence.
02:14Finally, through the protests of the staff, the workers at Garajan Hospital like the staff
02:22at almost all public hospitals, are trying to stop what is already happening.
02:29There is a shortage of professionals, social workers, nurses and kindergarten teachers.
02:33And that has an impact.
02:35Our own colleagues are leaving.
02:37They are leaving because they have to quit and find another job.
02:40This didn't happen before, but it is happening now.
02:47There we go.
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