(3 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina – 02 June 2025
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1. Various of doctors holding candle lights and singing during a protest in Buenos Aires, Argentina
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Laura Olivera, Chief of the Neuro-development are of Garrahan Hospital:
"On the other hand, it doesn’t seem to us at all that this solves the problem we’ve been having, because our biggest issue is budgetary. That is, we are working without a budget and we are truly asking for the appropriate budget to be allocated so that we can continue working and move forward with what we do every day."
3. Doctors holding candle lights during a protest in Buenos Aires, Argentina
4. Families supporting doctors holding candles and singing
5. Doctors holding candlelights
6. Protesters singing and holding candlelights
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Micaela Verdugo, mother of Tomas, a 9-year-old child with cancer:
"I can testify that it is one of the best hospitals, because in such a short time they have helped my son so much. And the way they care for patients is beyond words. I always say, and I will keep repeating, that to us they are like family. They are an additional family to us. The Garrahan Hospital is an additional family to us."
8. Various aerial shots of protest ++MUTE++
9. Aerial shot of protest at Obelisk monument
STORYLINE:
Doctors, residents, and administrative staff from Garrahan Hospital, Argentina’s leading peadiatric center, protested on Monday, demanding salary increases from President Javier Milei’s government.
Meanwhile, in a context of growing discontent among health professionals, a federal prosecutor opened an investigation into the health minister for alleged arbitrary management of the hospital, which is considered a cancer centre of excellence.
The discontent was particularly concentrated among doctors at the hospital after the government, which funds it 80 per cent, announced over the weekend a pay rise for resident doctors, which would take their income from $660 to $1,083 a month as of 1 July.
The increase for residents, which has not yet been made official, would leave more than 90% of the hospital’s permanent staff out of the eventual salary negotiations, ‘which makes the conflict grow and is leading to the possibility of new strikes and demonstrations tomorrow,’ Alejandro Lipcovich, secretary general of Garrahan’s internal board of workers, told The Associated Press on Monday.
The unrest at Garrahan reflects broader dissatisfaction among healthcare professionals under Milei’s ultraliberal administration, which has prioritized deep public spending cuts to fight inflation. Garrahan staff have highlighted the deteriorating work conditions, pointing to nearly 200 resignations due to low wages that are no longer sufficient to cover basic living costs.
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