The conflict that the anesthesiologists and the Instituto de Obra Médico Asistencial (IOMA) have been maintaining for several months has intensified again, the professionals began a strike “for an indefinite period” and care is beginning to be affected. The measure of force, as reported, affected clinics and sanatoriums in the region that had to reschedule surgeries and other practices since those affiliated with the social work represent around 70% of the total number of patients in the province.
In the Platense Society of Anesthesiology they reported that they received the payment of invoices presented in February for the services provided in January, but they announced that the forceful measure will continue until their fees are updated and the February payments are credited. The professionals demand better fees and less delay in payments, which in the midst of the high inflation that is registered in the country implies a strong depreciation of the amounts.
“There is an excess in the regulation of fees,” maintain the directors of the Plata Society of Anesthesiology and added that the dialogue with the social work “is practically broken.”
For their part, from the Federation of Clinics of the province of Buenos Aires (FECLIBA), they indicated that “it is very difficult to reschedule all surgeries.” “People who have to have surgery have a lot of uncertainty. All internal processes are modified. Complications are generated, beyond the right to claim that everyone has. This hits clinics that have such a weakened economy squarely “they specified with concern.
Despite the protest, the anesthesiologists made it clear that emergency, cardiology and oncology operations and practices for IOMA members are carried out normally to avoid affecting the health of patients.
