Overview
- The strike started on Tuesday and runs through Friday as APPAMIA has suspended scheduled primary care visits, routine dental appointments, specialist referrals and routine prescription transcriptions while maintaining minimum emergency coverage and urgent prescriptions.
- Providers say inflation and delayed payments have halved their real incomes since April and they are demanding higher fixed monthly 'cápita' rates to cover rent, staff and imported supplies.
- APPAMIA seeks roughly $4,500 per medical affiliate and up to $3,000 for dental cápitas while PAMI reportedly offered smaller raises to about $3,000 and $500, an amount the union rejected as insufficient.
- Adherence to the stoppage varies by province and local leaders warn the disruption is already shifting some PAMI patients into public hospitals, a pattern that strained facilities during prior short strikes.
- Negotiations between APPAMIA and PAMI remain open but unresolved and the protest marks an escalation after a 72‑hour stoppage earlier this month that failed to produce a settlement.