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Spanish → English transcript
About the staff, you were way off, because most of the people here are patients. Look at the retirees who are asking that this hospital not be shut down, where around fourteen thousand, fifteen thousand retirees are treated, just from Urlingam.
And they also come from the provinces, as the staff told us, the few employees who are left. Why?
Because in recent months they started letting them go, firing them. Why? Because they were billing. From 60 employees, 20 remain for now, and on Tuesday they were told that in 15 days this hospital, which treats so many people, as I said, will close for good.
The national government told them that, it is part of the dismantling of PAMI that we have been seeing for some days now, what is happening is that they are not paying the workers, they are closing places and obviously they are not taking care of retirees.
Also, obviously, the issue of cutting off medications, everything that is harming older adults.
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Original transcript (Spanish)
Los empleados te quedaste muy corto porque estas personas que están acá, la mayoría son pacientes, mirá lo que son los jubilados que están pidiendo que no cierre este hospital donde se atienden alrededor de 14.000, 15.000 jubilados solo de Urlingam y también vienen del interior, según nos comentaban los empleados, los pocos empleados que quedan, ¿por qué? Porque en los últimos meses empezaron a ir dejándolos ir, echándolos, ¿por qué? Porque facturaban, quedan de 60 empleados 20 por el momento y el martes les anunciaron que en 15 días este hospital que atiende a tantas personas, como te dije, cierra definitivamente. Nación les dijo eso, es parte del desguace de PAMI que estamos viendo desde ya hace algunos días lo que ocurre, que no les pagan a los trabajadores, que cierran lugares y obviamente que no atienden a los jubilados. También la cuestión obviamente del corte de los medicamentos, todo lo que está perjudicando a los adultos mayores.
