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Milei’s Chainsaw Leaves Argentina’s University Hospitals on the Verge of Collapse

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Hospitals that depend on public universities in Argentina, where about a million people are cared for each year and where, in addition, thousands of students are trained, did not receive operating budget so far this year. The health centers of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), the largest in the country, denounced this Tuesday that “in a month and a half, the care of hospitals will no longer be able to function”, if the Government of Javier …

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In the midst of the budget crossings and the suspension of the university financing law, the Undersecretary of University Policies, Alejandro Álvarez, said on Wednesday that if the hospitals of the University of Buenos Aires have administrative problems, they pass them to the national state. “What the UBA does is very serious. Using the fear of people with medical care to extort us to obtain money that does not belong to them, I have never seen …

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The budget claims are added to the failure to comply with the University Financing Act, resulting in a 50 percent decrease in the purchasing power of salaries. For these reasons, the fourth federal march is expected to take place on May 12.

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Hospitals that depend on public universities in Argentina, where about a million people are cared for each year and where, in addition, thousands of students are trained, did not receive operating budget so far this year. The health centers of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), the largest in the country, denounced this Tuesday that “in a month and a half, the care of hospitals will no longer be able to function”, if the Government of Javier …

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In the anteroom of a new national mobilization in demand for compliance with the Law of University Financing, the tension between the national government and the houses of high studies adds a new chapter. This time, the focus of the conflict is on the transfers of resources destined for the operation of the university hospitals,...

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Buenos Aires, 6 May (NA) – The Undersecretary of University Policies, Alejandro Álvarez, acknowledged that the money was not transferred to university hospitals, according to the vice-rector of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Emiliano Yacobitti, who said that the official answered “a month later” to formally file the complaint. In his social networks, Yacobitti published the response of Álvarez and let us see that the press conference give…

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The technical secretary of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of Córdoba (UNC), Rogelio Pizzi, confirmed that the Nation is not sending the specific funds for university hospitals approved in Budget 2026, although he later charged against the UBA for claiming for himself to the national government almost the whole of that budget. Pizzi’s argument coincides with the response published yesterday by the Ministry of Human Cap…

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politicargentina.com broke the news on Tuesday, May 5, 2026.
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