The Government of Javier Milei, through the Ministry of Health, made the decision to eliminate the "Committee of Experts on Gender and Diversity Assistance" and the "Committee on Different Sexual Development" from Hospital Garrahan.
The measure seeks to reduce unnecessary expenses, eliminate waste, and refocus the role of the country's main pediatric hospital on its true mission, which is quality medical care for children.
For years, Hospital Garrahan maintained unusual structures that only replied to a strong ideological bias of Kirchnerism, but had no real medical usefulness.
Under previous administrations, institutional teams dedicated to topics such as "gender diversity," "sexual identity transition in minors," and the creation of assistance units focused on hormonal treatment and genital mutilation of minors were promoted. These reprehensible practices, funded with public money, were established within a hospital whose purpose should truly be to care for children.
Los comités.
Javier Milei's administration, through the Minister of Health, Mario Lugones, decided to move forward with the elimination of these spaces. The committees not only represented a significant budgetary burden, which caused a serious diversion of resources, but also operated under criteria unrelated to solid medical evidence.
Some of these teams promoted, among other things, hormonal and surgical processes in minors without the clinical rigor and scientific evidence that an intervention of such magnitude should require.
These committees also organized activities that caused strong criticism for their lack of hospital relevance and for not even having a logical purpose. One example was the inauguration of a mural in one of the hospital's central courtyards, on the occasion of the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women."
El anuncio del Gobierno de Milei.
A "red bench," a symbol of the fight against "femicide," was also installed. These actions, funded with the hospital's resources, not only fail to solve structural problems but also do not improve the care of the thousands of children who attend Garrahan every year.
The then president of the Board of Directors, Guillermo González Prieto, promoted the creation of a Gender Unit and a Committee on Women, Gender, and Diversities, publicly defending their usefulness. "It is a source of pride to inaugurate this red bench at Hospital Garrahan," he said at that time.
With the elimination of these structures, the money allocated to the hospital will now go directly to important areas, such as intensive care, operating rooms, infrastructure, and better salary conditions for doctors and nurses.
The measure seeks to restore efficiency criteria in the public health system. Milei's Government seeks to ensure that every peso invested has a direct impact on the well-being of patients, not on structures that respond more to an ideological bias than to a clinical approach.
