2023-10-21 19:30:00
A rally took place last Friday night on Estanislao López Avenue and Oroño Boulevard, within the framework of Pediatrician’s Day, in line with the claims by self-convened doctors for increases in their fees, which are deducted at one third of the ethical value suggested by your College. They joined from other specialties and also small patients with their parents.
With signs that said “danger: pediatricians in extinction”, the claim was in line with the doctors of all specialties who marched on October 12 in front of the Rosario Medical Association. Next Wednesday they will meet with the authorities of the Medical College to seek support in their claim to social works, clinics, sanatoriums and health funders.
In the letter they carry, the self-convened members specify that they see themselves “violated” because His fee is far from being decent – social services pay around $2,500 per consultation when what the school suggests is triple. and they have no answers to their complaints.
Friday’s initiative was promoted by the Pediatras en Lucha collective, which has existed for six months and adheres to the demands of the self-convened people.
Mariana Velázquez is a pediatrician and a reference for the groupand consulted by Rosario3 He specified: “We are 450 pediatricians from Rosario and its region. In principle, we organized because many pediatricians saw that in public health there is job insecurity and a lack of pediatricians on call, and we saw that those of us who work in the private system are also being precarious, in different ways.”
Regarding the fee for attention, Marina explained that “What is suggested by the College is three times more than what is being paid, and it arrives 90 to 120 days late. Added to this is that, in many cases, 30 percent of the value is retained for the office.and AMR keeps 10 percent for the administrative part.”
In this way, social and prepaid works pay around $2,500. “Finally, with the discounts, we charged about $1,400 for the consultation. What an alfajor is worth. And I have colleagues who are receiving what they worked last May, completely devalued.”
He recalled then, as part of the self-convened doctors: “20 days ago We met with AMR to find out if they wanted to get closer to the amount, and there they proposed a coinsurance, which is not the same and we do not agree. This Wednesday we will have a meeting with the College.”
Regarding the mobilization, Mariana agreed: “The call was high. Specialists came from other medical fields and pediatricians older than us, who had never made a claim. Many mothers came to support with their children. And people from the Argentine Society of Pediatrics, which is national, we feel accompanied.”
There were several expressions on the banners that the pediatricians carried this Friday. (Rosario3)
An additional dedication specialty
Velázquez highlighted about the profession of pediatricians that differs from many other health professions in the bond with their patients and their parents: “We do not give five-minute consultations. In the office, the father brings his baby with a bond of trust from when he is three months old, and sometimes they come until the adolescent is 18 years old.”
In this sense, he explained that “the bond generates a responsibility, checking each child well because their lives are in our hands. That is the ethical value of consultation. Not only the years that the career, specialty and subspecialty took, but the responsibility that comes with caring for them.”
Since in these cases the consultation takes time, he added: “That is why we do not have so many patients to make it economically viable. So we are immersed in multiple jobs, attending to many per hour, not being able to train ourselves. All We have three or four jobs, and then we assist parents with digital queries via WhatsApp, something that is not charged.”.
Finally, he specified: “We are poorly remunerated both in the public and private spheres. We are not seeing that prepaid has the intention of increasing it.”
This is how the pediatricians in Oroño and the river demonstrated to demand an increase in their fees. (Rosario3)
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