Overview

• Workers at Hospital Garrahan will hold a 24-hour strike starting at 7 AM Wednesday with a concentration at Unión Personal’s Tucumán 949 headquarters
• Unions cite the August 1 introduction of copayments by UPCN/Unión Personal as a de facto wage cut that also hampers patients’ access to care
• They note that the Chamber of Deputies has given media sanción to a Pediatric Emergency Law but warn President Milei’s veto threat and lack of Senate scheduling have left it in limbo
• Hospital leaders report weekly departures of doctors and technicians and warn that canceled procedures signal a deepening service crisis
• APyT and allied public-sector and academic unions have scheduled a nationwide mobilization for August 27 to press for wider public-health funding reforms