Today was a bit more lowkey than the past visits has been, with us walking over to Austral’s downtown campus to listen to some lectures. Our first lecture was about the distribution of healthcare payers in Argentina and how the distribution affects other payers and premiums as well as the extra cost it adds to…

We got a bit of another break today and went on a day trip across the Silver River to Colonia, Uruguay for the day. After a bit of a rocky boat trip across, we began our walking tour around Colonia, looking at the historic district that once belonged to the Spanish and Portuguese prior to…

We spent our day today walking around Buenos Aires and learning more about the history and the culture surrounding the city. Every time we talked about an old historical neighborhood or certain ports and stations, the idea of Peronism would come up almost every time, referring to the political party started by Juan Peron in…

Our today was spent mostly in the Palermo/Recoleta neighborhoods in the northern part of the city. We first looked at the private hospital Sanitorium Mater Dei, which was one of the nicest clinics or hospitals that we’ve seen so far. We then headed over to a public one called Hospital Fernandez which looked a lot…

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,…

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…

We started today off bright and early and drove to the Santa Maria Children’s Home just north of the city where we were met by Sister Carla, the nun who runs the clinic and children’s home, as well as four students from Austral University. They mentioned that the clinic, which sits in a relatively remote…

After some very long flights, we finally landed in Buenos Aires and were greeted by Laura and Ileana from IES Abroad. After getting through border security and customs pretty quickly, we took a bus into the city and to our hotel. We got to see some of the outer parts of Buenos Aires as well…