Overview
- Decisión Administrativa 29/2025, signed by Chief of Cabinet Guillermo Francos and Economy Minister Luis Caputo, reprograms the 2025 budget to bolster national hospitals and health personnel.
- Allocations include ARS 20.18 billion for Hospital Garrahan and ARS 5.11 billion for health workforce training, with additional funds for El Cruce, SAMIC El Calafate, Cuenca Alta Néstor Kirchner, Dr. René Favaloro, Presidente Néstor Kirchner, and Posadas.
- The ARS 35.832 billion increase is financed by reducing credits to Jurisdiction 91, Obligaciones a cargo del Tesoro, rather than expanding overall spending.
- On the day of the budget move, ATE and APyT workers occupied Garrahan’s medical directorate, protesting steep paycheck deductions tied to strike days that unions say reached up to ARS 500,000.
- Hospital authorities and national officials condemned the occupation as political, affirmed that services continue, and stated that the hospital’s budget and ongoing projects are guaranteed.