Overview

• The Health Ministry set a goal to reposition Garrahan as Latin America’s leading high‑complexity pediatric center through new works and advanced equipment.
• The plan includes a pediatric linear accelerator and a new radiosurgery unit described as firsts for a pediatric hospital in the region to boost precision and reduce side effects.
• Capacity upgrades expand the bone marrow transplant area to avoid sending children abroad, reopen four operating rooms, and add an ECMO‑equipped ambulance for critical transfers.
• Infrastructure purchases replace about 400 beds, stretchers and wheelchairs and add renal and hepatic perfusion machines plus updated sterilization, imaging, pathology, laboratory, microbiology and pharmacy technology.
• Officials said financing will come from the hospital’s own service recoveries and international agreements rather than new transfers, and the announcement followed congressional veto battles and worker protests over emergency funding.