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IPS doctors to demonstrate in solidarity with Sinamed

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • IPS doctors and other health professionals plan to demonstrate outside the IPS Central Hospital in Asunción in support of Sinamed.
  • The participants say they face similar working conditions and will not accept contracts to fill vacancies left by doctors who resigned.
  • The demonstration reflects an effort by IPS medical groups to support colleagues and strengthen their collective position.

Doctors at Paraguay’s Social Security Institute, known as IPS, will take to the streets in solidarity with the National Medical Union, or Sinamed. The demonstration is scheduled for Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. outside the Central Hospital of the social security system in Asunción.

Marlene Guirland, secretary of the IPS anesthesiologists’ union, confirmed that doctors and other medical professionals will join the action. The IPS Medical Association, along with unionized and non-unionized doctors, is expected to participate.

Our reality is similar to theirs; we are not separate. We are all doctors, and we all live the same reality.

— Marlene GuirlandThe IPS anesthesiologists’ union secretary explained why doctors were supporting Sinamed’s demands.

The organizers want to make visible the working conditions medical professionals face in hospitals across the country. Guirland said their situation resembles that of the Sinamed doctors and stressed that the groups are not separated from one another.

It is a measure of solidarity and support, a show of strength for our colleagues; to tell them that we are also with them.

— Marlene GuirlandShe described the purpose of the planned demonstration.

“It is a measure of solidarity and support, a show of strength for our colleagues; to tell them that we are also with them. Our reality is similar to theirs; we are not separate. We are all doctors, and we all live the same reality,” Guirland said.

IPS doctors also said they would not accept job offers to fill positions left vacant by physicians who resigned. Guirland said the IPS union aims to become a support network for its colleagues. “We will not take those positions; we value medical ethics,” she said.

We will not take those positions; we value medical ethics.

— Marlene GuirlandShe said IPS doctors would not accept contracts to fill vacancies left by doctors who resigned.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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