With criticism from Axel Kicillof, a mayor removes IOMA from his city and dissatisfaction with social work grows

For a long time he Instituto Obra Medico Assistance (IOMA) frequently receives complaints from its affiliates in various localities and municipalities due to criticism of service attention. Tandil, Bahía Blanca, among other towns, are the main sources of discomfort. However, in one of these cities in conflict, an opposition mayor decides directly to abandon social work.

Manuel Passaglia (PRO), the leader of the community of San Nicolás, presented a project to the Deliberative Council so that municipal employees could give up this medical coverage and be entitled to acquire a new benefit. “Workers deserve to be able to see their favorite doctor anywhere in the city; and doctors receive these services in time and form. This is not done with IOMA”, justified the mayor.

With strong criticism from Axel Kicillof, Passaglia blamed the “poor service” of health coverage, despite the recurring complaints that have been made. “We have raised it many times and there is no point in continuing to wait for Governor Kicillof to do something to improve it,” he assessed.

IOMA is the social work to which millions of teachers, police officers, public employees, municipal employees and retirees in the province of Buenos Aires must contribute. The huge caregiver, presided over by the doctor Homer Gillesis a regular target of rebuke from members and transcends the various political endeavors that come to La Plata.

“We are fed up with the IOMA disaster and Kicillof’s inaction“Expressed Passaglia from his social networks. “The PBA has a health plan that the thousands of teachers, municipal elected officials and police officers in the city are fighting to obtain a replacement in a few clinics, without doing anything for the IOMA to be accepted in any institute. medical. It is a lack of respect for users and doctors,” he added in this message.

According to the project presented in San Nicolás, the 750 workers who depend on the municipal administration will continue to have IOMA coverage in March, and only in April will they have private social work that will be defined in the next weeks. The intention is that municipal staff will have “wider medical coverage, more teams and medical centers to attend and better care”, and at the same time, “health workers will receive their salaries in a timely manner”, they said from the town of Nicolean. .

Another PRO leader advanced in a similar decision. In Captain Sarmientoopposition mayor Javier Iguacel gave municipal workers the freedom to choose their health coverage. “We gave freedom to be at IOMA. Nine out of ten (municipal) have changed because the service is lousy,” said the community leader, who also aspires to run as a candidate for the governorship of the Juntos alliance.

In duringwhere the radical mayor Miguel Ángel Lunghi governs, since January the affiliates have been calling to demonstrate in front of the social work headquarters to demand the normalization of benefits.

At the end of the year, IOMA authorities terminated an agreement with the Círculo Médico de Tandil, which affected the supply of professionals available for care, and forced members to travel to other cities to get an appointment. In February, an agreement was reached with La Mutuelle 23 de Diciembre, an intermediary entity with the Círculo Médico, but dissatisfaction persists.

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“Three weeks ago, the end of the conflict was announced and a application for orders, studies and others. This app never worked. They give the option to send emails but they don’t give replies, only some orders come in randomly,” he said. martin gastaldi, one of the beneficiaries concerned and integrates the groups of “self-convened” affiliates. A month ago, several people belonging to this organization demonstrated and waved banners with the inscription “IOMA Tandil Emergency” during a visit by Axel Kicillof to the city.

According to Gastaldi, the procedures for the premiums necessary to attend medical consultations are not granted and, generally, the procedures are authorized late by the mutual insurance company. And this leads to administrative chaos, with long queues, which adds to the confusion. “We have no option to change social work, we are captives,” he lamented. In Tandil district, there are more than 24,000 IOMA members.

In other places, like White Bay, the complaints pointed to “undue charges”, meaning any health benefit that involves an additional expense for members. The irregular situation has drawn protests from organizations such as the Judicial Association of Buenos Aires (AJB).

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