In the Central Hospital of the city of Formosa, the “bleeding” of doctors who work in the area of surgery does not stop, due to poor working conditions, low wages and lack of specific resources.
According to testimonies, the Minister of Human Development ignores the proposals, does not tour the facilities and does not talk with the staff regarding the increasingly numerous problems.
“The Director is never there, the Minister’s brother who is from PAMI came but only to make an appearance because he does not understand anything of what happens in the place” they expressed.
Even the surgical staff have threatened to resign en masse if working conditions do not improve. One of the professionals who would have resigned is the renowned surgeon, Pablo Flecha, precisely because of low wages and lack of supplies.
On the other hand, the number of patients makes adequate care critical and there are more than 200 patients on the waiting list for general surgeries alone. Added to this list are those who enter the emergency or guard service every day. There are a total of 3,000 patients who are treated daily in one of the Hospitals that cares for the most people.
Like the Minister, the Director of the Hospital, Dr. Graciela Vera, is also accused by the staff as a person who does not walk the corridors of the Hospital and who does not intervene directly in the problematic situations of the target staff.
“Persecution, threats and harassment”
Two notes signed by the permanent staff, day laborers and contracted from the Maintenance area of the Central Hospital denounced “Persecution, threats and workplace harassment” by those responsible for the sector.
Employees denounce that they are persecuted, mistreated or actions are taken with respect to their income, using the removal of shift hours or overtime, as extortion or punishment to the detriment of their low wages.
The notes sent to Dr. Viera point directly to the Engineer Marcelo Pereira and the Architect, Mariel González Márquez, who would resort to “verbal abuse, gestural abuse with excessive violence, threats of dismissal, removal of guards, transfer and even complaints of theft of different inputs” of the service.
The two notes are signed by more than twenty workers and were presented months ago without the solution being resolved so far.