However, the paradox is clear, since while the national executive is being attacked, Kicillof's own administration fails to fulfill its basic responsibilities to one of the country's most emblematic hospitals.
Kicillof's government owes $4,135 million to the children's hospital through the Buenos Aires Province health insurance IOMA
However, the paradox is clear, since while the national executive is being attacked, Kicillof's own administration fails to fulfill its basic responsibilities to one of the country's most emblematic hospitals.
Meanwhile, another union demonstration was called at the doors of Garrahan Hospital. This march is even more objectionable, as a blockade of access to the health center is expected, which would put emergency care for children at risk.
The priorities of the Buenos Aires government seem to be more closely linked to political agitation against Milei than to healthcare management, as resources are allocated to partisan events and the debt with Garrahan remains unpaid, affecting the hospital's care and the working conditions of healthcare professionals.
The political use of an institution like Garrahan, without resolving the financial problems caused by the same Kirchnerist government, demonstrates a logic more interested in political confrontation than in a real solution.
While the ultra-Kirchnerist governor of Buenos Aires Province, Axel Kicillof, is funding a "Federal March for Public Health" promoted by K groups, the children's hospital Garrahan, the very institution in whose name the mobilization is being organized, continues to face financial difficulties due to a multi-million peso debt owed by the Buenos Aires government.
The Instituto de Obra Médico Asistencial (IOMA), the provincial health insurance provider under the direct control of Kicillof's administration, has an outstanding debt of $4.135 billion with Garrahan, one of Argentina's leading pediatric centers and a regional benchmark in pediatric medical care.
The existence of the debt was confirmed by the Secretary of Worship and Civilization, Nahuel Sotelo, who also reported that this situation compromises the hospital's operations at a critical moment.
Despite this situation, Governor Kicillof decided to fund a march in the name of "defending public health," which will depart from Congress to Plaza de Mayo and will be led by the Kirchnerist front Fuerza Patria. The political event is centered on condemning the government of Javier Milei, whom they accuse of defunding the healthcare system.