The Minister of Health of the Province of Buenos Aires, Nicolás Kreplak, participated in the opening ceremony of the 10th Congress of General Medicine and Health Team, which took place in the Mar de Ajó Multicultural Space. The activities, organized by the Association of General Medicine of the Province of Buenos Aires (AMGBA) together with the Municipality of La Costa and the Movement for the Health of the People, lasted four days and concluded last Saturday.
During his time in the La Costa Party, Kreplak highlighted the need to “Build fairer health that reaches everyone”. In this framework, he considered “We have a lot to do, but there is a lot that has been done”.
Kreplak stressed that, when the Axel Kicillof government began in 2020, 5.1% of the provincial budget was allocated to health. “In 2022, without the pandemic, it will reach 7.1%”assured and added: “Those resources that perhaps were previously in financial speculation, today are put at the service of health. We invested in hospitals and thousands of workers have been incorporated”.
Regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, the Minister of Health reflected: “Health workers have done a lot, they have had the responsibility of leading a people that has also done a lot. We have managed to get through that moment, with many losses that could not be avoided in a pandemic, but at least with the certainty that the State was there to take care of everyone. That construction, that value, that effort that has been made, we have to put it first”.
The president of AMGBA, Cintia Altamirano, and the Secretary of Health of La Costa, Juan de Jesús, also participated in the opening of the congress, who pointed out: “It is a pride for us to have a tenth edition of the Congress of General Medicine with the participation of the minister and a great turnout with more than 600 registered”.
De Jesus referred to the “look at health as a right not only individual, but also social and universal” and added: “We are going to a primary care model, where the subject of health is the person. We are not going to look for health at the hospital: at the hospital we are going to recover it, in the neighborhoods and in our house there is promotion, prevention and reduction of risks, which are all those things that allow us to have a healthier life”.
In this sense, the Secretary of Health indicated: “We are working in the district’s Primary Health Care Centers and in networks integrated into the Health system, which allows us to articulate, coordinate and provide a much more organized service”.