These are the official figures according to the Ministry of Public Communication of the Province of Buenos Aires: while he owes more than $6.4 billion to Garrahan, Axel Kicillof spent $58 billion on official guidelines
The ultra Kirchner governor Axel Kicillof could have paid off the debt that the province of Buenos Aires maintains with the Garrahan Children'sHospital using just 11% of what he squandered in the official guidelines during 2025.According to official figures, Kicillof's debt to Garrahan amounts to more than $6,400,000,000, and corresponds to outstanding payments through the provincial social organization IOMA. Meanwhile, the province spent nearly $58 billion on advertising and official communication throughout the year. That amount is almost nine times what is owed to the country's largest pediatric hospital
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The comparison reveals a strong contradiction in Kicillof's management. While thousands of children depend on Garrahan's care, the Kirchner administration prioritized allocating millions of dollars to a politically aligned communication apparatus. According to data from the Buenos Aires Ministry of Public Communication, published by El Disenso, during 2025 the official pattern was distributed among 638 media outlets and 357 providers. Many of these beneficiaries belong to conglomerates linked to Kirchnerism or related
media structures. Axel Kicillof, governor of Buenos Aires.
The detail of the distribution is also significant.
The main beneficiaries include large media conglomerates:
Grupo Indalo: $6,960 million Grupo Olmos: $3,617 million Grupo América: $3,094 million
Clarín Group: $2,940 million
El Destape: $2,868 million Infobae: $2,248 million
Editorial Profile: $1,858 million Grupo Alter: $1,853 million
Grupo Octubre: $1,635
million
Grupo Elías: $1,409 million Government spending in the province of Buenos Aires not only grew at a rapid pace, but also became a central tool of Kicillof's political strategy in the midst of the electoral race.
The objective is to guarantee media presence and political protection in the midst of a severe crisis of insecurity in the Buenos Aires territory, in addition to the disastrous local management in the
area of health and education.
Garrahan Hospital, a reference for pediatric health in Argentina, serves thousands of children from all over the country, many from the province of Buenos Aires. The default in IOMA payments affects the hospital's ability to purchase essential supplies and maintain critical treatments
. Axel Kicillof, governor of Buenos Aires.
The investment of the Milei Government
On the contrary, the Government of Javier Milei presented images that showed the regrettable state in which Garrahan Hospital was at the time of taking office. As a result, it announced an investment of close to $30 billion for new equipment and expansion works, made possible by the new administration's efficient use of resources
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During a press conference, presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni explained that these funds will be used to purchase a pediatric linear accelerator, the only one of its kind in Latin America, which will allow children with cancer to be treated in a more precise and less invasive way. Investment will also be made in expanding the bone marrow transplant area, with the goal of allowing patients to receive complex treatments without having to travel outside the country
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The investment will also include the reopening of four operating rooms, which will be equipped with state-of-the-art technology; the purchase of an ambulance; the renovation of 400 stretchers and wheelchairs, many with more than 30 years of use; as well as the purchase of renal and liver infusion machines and new equipment for sterilization, imaging, pharmacy and laboratory.
