One of the most interesting things I learned during our hospital visits was they different between a municipal hospital and a provincial hospital in Argentina. A provincial hospital is owned and funded by the province itself, while a municipal hospital receive support from both the municipality and the province. During our visit to San Isidro…
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Day 5 – Municipal vs Provincial Funding
We spent our entire day today looking at a hospital in the La Matanza municipality in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. While this hospital was public like the one we visited in San Isidro, the way it received its budget and funding was very different. With San Isidro, they were mostly funded through their municipality,…
City vs. Municipalities
Day 5! Today we visited the public Matanza Hospital. This is the biggest county of Buenos Aires, with a dense population of approximately three million people. This is a similar population size compared to the city of Buenos Aires. The area has poverty, security, and low income issues. Unlike Buenos Aires, Matanza receives funding only…
La Matanza’s Management
Today we toured the Diego Parisien Hopsital and the University of La Matanza; both are public institutions located in the La Matanza municipal. They serve 3 million people outside of the main city of Buenos Aires- I was honestly surprised to see this many people in this province. Although this was not the only hospital…
Day 5: Pitt students take on La Mantza
What an interesting day! This morning we had an amazing opportunity to go inside the public hospital called Paroissien Hospital. We got to see a lot of their cool facilities, like their new X-ray machine and a cath lab. We heard from some nurses about their experiences, and Mimi, one of the nurses, was the…
Day 5 – Exploring Public Healthcare and Education
Today was packed with information about public systems in Argentina. We started our day off with a visit to Paroissien Hospital in La Matanza. This area is much more underfunded than San Isidro, which we visited a couple of days ago. Paroissien Hospital is a public hospital, fully funded by the province of Buenos Aires….
Gus Coleman – Day 5: Hospital Visit Outside the City
Today we visited the municipality of La matanza in the Buenos Aires Province to visit the Paroissien Hospital. Here we toured both the inpatient and outpatient areas. We looked at the emergency department, the expansion to the ICU, the X-ray machines, and the morgue. The hospital was very busy and chaotic, most likely because it…
Day 5: What is With the funding?
Today we went to the University of La Mantanza, Paroissien Hospital, and the UNLaM facility. Today we focused more on the funding from municipalities and provinces and how it affects neighborhood to neighborhood. La Mantanza has 3 million people in its area, which is an insane amount of people that need to be taken care…
Day 5: From Buenos Aires to La Montanza
Today we visited a public health facility in the La Montanza municipality and La Montanza University. La Montanza is a less wealthy municipality outside of the city of Buenos Aires. Before touring the hospital, we met with the director of the hospital. He explained to us the challenges of caring for over 3 million people…
Inside Argentina’s Public Healthcare Divide (Day 5)
The visits to Hospital Interzonal General de Agudos Paroissien and Universidad Nacional de La Matanza allowed me to see the social and economic inequality among municipalities in Buenos Aires and those in its rural surroundings. Paroissien is a provincial hospital serving almost 3 million people. However, Paroissien gets much less money from the government than…
Day 5: A Day in La Matanza
Today we traveled outside of central Buenos Aires to visit the Paroissien Hospital in La Matanza, one of the many municipalities on the outskirts of the Buenos Aires Province. The hospital is a public hospital that is fully funded by the province, but it is not funded by the municipality. During our visit, we learned…
Day 5 – La Matanza Municipality (Hospital & University)
Today we started the day by driving to the La Matanza municipality to see the public hospital funded only by provincial funds called the Paroissien. This municipality is in the Buenos Aires province just like San Isidro however is only funded by provincial funds and not municipal and provincial like San Isidro. This causes differences…
Day 5: Making Friends with Argentinian Nurses
Today we visited Paroissien Hospital and the Universidad Nacional de La Matanza. The hospital is public and run by the Province. They are funded a very small amount of money compared to San Isidro who are funded by municipalities and receive much more money. Due to the poor funding, Paroissen struggled with keeping the hospital…
La Matanza
Today we explored the relationship between the rural municipalities surrounding Buenos Aires and the city center. We started our morning by visiting La Matanza Hospital and doing a guided tour. La Matanza hospital had primary, secondary, and even tertiary levels of care. The facility was huge, with many corridors and rooms, and just about every…
The Power of Primary Care (May 12)
This morning we arrived at the Tigre river for a boat tour. We visited a primary care clinic in the rural Tigre area. The clinic was hard to get to, and we traveled by boat. The most interesting thing here was the mobile clinic which was in a boat. The boat was stocked with medicines…
Day 3 – Public Care
Before I get into today’s blog, I just wanted to say happy International Nurse’s Day. Since learning more and more about the healthcare system, both in the United States and in Argentina, I can confidently say that without nurses, our healthcare systems would not be able to function. It is because of them that patients…
Gus Coleman – Day 3: River Rides, Aquatic Clinics, and the ICU
Today we took a boat ride to the Tigre Municipo, a public health center near the Rio Capitan. The clinic which was just like the one we saw yesterday, however this one relied a lot more on funding from the government and a lot less on volunteer services. This clinic seemed to have a much…
Day 3: From Tigre to San Isidro
Day three was a very fun day! We started off by taking a boat tour, and took a stop at the Tigre Municipio. We were lucky to have the opportunity to tour the inside of the building and the ambulance boat. This public service is provided by government funding and serves many people in the…
National Nursing Day Along the Tigre River!
Day 3! Today was such a cool day because we got to explore a completely different area outside of Buenos Aires. We took a boat over to Tigre, and the views along the river were beautiful. It was really interesting seeing all the houses, schools, and small communities along the water because it felt so…
Navigating the Public Health System in Argentina
To start the day, we drove to Tigre and then boarded a boat on the river, which we took to a public PCP clinic accessible by dock. This health center operates as a 24 hour office with appointments. It covers a vast range of territory, with only one ambulance available. I found this astonishing considering…