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Due to the reduction in the real budget, the UBA Clinic Hospital reduced surgeries and operates at less than 40% - Infobae
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Por la baja del presupuesto real, el Hospital de Clínicas de la UBA redujo las cirugías y funciona a menos del 40%
El director del centro de salud, Marcelo Melo, detalló la “situación muy delicada” que viven en medio del conflicto por los fondos. Aseguró que la inflación de los medicamentos que utilizan fue del 1000%
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April 18, 2024
The director of the health center, Marcelo Melo, detailed the “very delicate situation” they are experiencing in the midst of the conflict over funds. He assured that the inflation of the medications they use was 1000%
El director del Hospital de Clínicas de la UBA advirtió que empezaron a suspender cirugías por la falta de presupuesto
El director del Hospital de Clínicas de la UBA advirtió que empezaron a suspender cirugías por la falta de presupuesto
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The director of the UBA Hospital de Clínicas warned that they began to suspend surgeries due to lack of budget
The situation in the country's universities is worsening day by day, amid the lack of updating of the funds that the national government sends them, which were very outdated in the midst of the high inflation that has accelerated since December. And among the difficulties that institutions are experiencing, one of the most critical is what is happening with the emblematic Hospital de Clínicas of the University of Buenos Aires , which had to reduce its activity, including surgeries.
The director of the Hospital, Marcelo Melo, outlined a very complex panorama, amid the lack of budget and an increase in prices in the supplies they use that is far above that recorded by the rest of the economy.
“ The situation is quite complex because we depend on a budget that we do not have. The Hospital, to function, needs resources, a budget. The budget is for the purchase of supplies, medications, disposables, high-value medications, the maintenance of the devices, the insurance of the devices, which is very expensive. If we do not have those resources because the budget does not exist, we cannot face any tender,” said Melo.
In statements to Radio Miter, the doctor and teacher stated that the large percentage of people served by the hospital do not have private health coverage, and arrive at the place with complex pathologies that cannot be treated in other health centers that require many resources. . “It is a very delicate situation,” he warned.
Next, he detailed how the lack of updating the budget affected the functioning of the institution he commands, including the surgeries they perform: “Always with the summer their activity decreases, but since December ended, and also since we were not certain about the budget , we reduced activity and only began to treat fractures, infections and oncology (in terms of surgeries). We lowered the operation of the hospital to 30 or 40% , but even with that level of operation we cannot face those expenses,” she warned.
Melo also explained that the situation is even more serious since the inflation of the products used to treat different pathologies is much higher than that of the general economy recorded by Indec.
“We have the budget frozen with an Indec inflation of 270%, but the inflation of medicines is 1000% . Last year we held four-monthly tenders to buy medicines and 4 or 5 billion pesos were spent for a four-month period. Now that has increased 1000%,” he said.
Although he clarified that this is not the current discussion, he also regretted the situation experienced by hospital workers, the majority of whom, he assured, “earn salaries that are below the poverty line. "It's totally crazy."
Due to the situation that the Hospital de Clínicas is experiencing, a symbolic hug was planned for today to defend the institution.
The hallways of the UBA Faculty of Medicine are dark, in the midst of the budget emergency
The complex situation that universities in general are experiencing became evident as the weeks went by and the lack of updating of funds. In fact, days ago, the Superior Council of the UBA declared a budgetary emergency that includes a series of measures with the aim of reducing costs and sustaining operations.
The decision establishes not to use air conditioning services (hot - cold); nor gas services in the boilers in the University buildings, with the exception of the university hospitals for patient care and the necessary conditioning for the correct operation of equipment and technological infrastructure. In addition, the calls made for research, science and technology and university extension programs will be subject to the effective availability of the budget to be able to be undertaken and the actions linked by the UBA in Action Program will be limited to those financed by organizations external to the UBA. and/or private contributions.
The vice-rector of the UBA, Emiliano Yacobitti, denounced that the adjustment suffered by public universities was 370% and that, as a consequence of accumulated inflation, 70% for the payment of salaries and 10% for the operation that the Government assigned were not comparable to the costs they must face. “Today the adjustment is $8 every $10,” he warned by revealing that the cost to pay for the electricity supply also increased by 577%.
In line with the claim, the university authority stated that “the University of Buenos Aires has an additional problem due to the large number of research centers and the large number of students who study in the faculties of Health Sciences,” when referring to to the network of hospitals that depend on the institution, among them, the Hospital de Clínicas , the Angel H. Roffo Institute of Oncology , the Alfredo Lanari Medical Research Institute , the “Raúl F. Vaccarezza” Institute of Tisioneumonology and the Dental Hospital. Academic .
Yesterday, after the images of the UBA Faculty of Medicine in the dark went viral , and while a symbolic hug is being prepared for the Hospital de Clínicas and other actions in defense of the university budget, the national government assured that “ the payment has been signed.” ” of the funds requested by the University of Buenos Aires . He did so through a tweet from the Undersecretary of University Policies, Alejandro Álvarez . However, the UBA denied that version to Infobae .
