Photos of Argentines affected by cuts to the public health system
Eduardo Castano sheds tears while thinking about his wife Marité, who died in 2024, unable to secure drugs that had been covered by the federal agency DADSE, which President Javier Milei dissolved, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
President Javier Milei’s severe budget cuts to Argentina’s public health system have led to a decline in care, particularly affecting cancer patients, according to experts, government workers and advocates.
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Eduardo Castano holds a photo of himself with his wife Marité, who died in 2024, unable to secure medication that had been covered by federal agency DADSE, which President Javier Milei dissolved, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Eduardo Castano holds a photo of himself with his wife Marité, who died in 2024, unable to secure medication that had been covered by federal agency DADSE, which President Javier Milei dissolved, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Lucia Ruiz Diaz sits next to her 5-year-old son Tomas, who has cancer, at a waiting room in the Garrahan Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. Cancer patients say they’ve grown sicker since Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei took his chainsaw to the public health system. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Lucia Ruiz Diaz sits next to her 5-year-old son Tomas, who has cancer, at a waiting room in the Garrahan Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. Cancer patients say they’ve grown sicker since Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei took his chainsaw to the public health system. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Ariel Wagener, a 47-year-old pizza chef with leukemia who was hospitalized this year with failing kidneys after losing access to his medication, poses for a photo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Ariel Wagener, a 47-year-old pizza chef with leukemia who was hospitalized this year with failing kidneys after losing access to his medication, poses for a photo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A man pushes a patient in a wheelchair past the waiting room at Rodolfo Rossi Hospital in La Plata, Argentina, Thursday, May 8, 2025. According to experts, government workers and advocates, President Javier Milei’s cutbacks have overwhelmed the nation’s public hospitals, upended vaccination efforts and taken a toll on the country’s poor and unemployed. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A man pushes a patient in a wheelchair past the waiting room at Rodolfo Rossi Hospital in La Plata, Argentina, Thursday, May 8, 2025. According to experts, government workers and advocates, President Javier Milei’s cutbacks have overwhelmed the nation’s public hospitals, upended vaccination efforts and taken a toll on the country’s poor and unemployed. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A woman leans on a counter while waiting to receive free medicine at the Rodolfo Rossi Hospital in La Plata, Argentina, Thursday, May 8, 2025. According to experts, government workers and advocates, President Javier Milei’s cutbacks have overwhelmed the nation’s public hospitals, upended vaccination efforts and taken a toll on the country’s poor and unemployed. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A woman leans on a counter while waiting to receive free medicine at the Rodolfo Rossi Hospital in La Plata, Argentina, Thursday, May 8, 2025. According to experts, government workers and advocates, President Javier Milei’s cutbacks have overwhelmed the nation’s public hospitals, upended vaccination efforts and taken a toll on the country’s poor and unemployed. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
People sit in a waiting room at the Rodolfo Rossi Hospital in La Plata, Argentina, Thursday, May 8, 2025. According to experts, government workers and advocates, President Javier Milei’s cutbacks have overwhelmed the nation’s public hospitals, upended vaccination efforts and taken a toll on the country’s poor and unemployed. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
People sit in a waiting room at the Rodolfo Rossi Hospital in La Plata, Argentina, Thursday, May 8, 2025. According to experts, government workers and advocates, President Javier Milei’s cutbacks have overwhelmed the nation’s public hospitals, upended vaccination efforts and taken a toll on the country’s poor and unemployed. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Claudia Caballero poses with a photo of her late son Alexis Almiron, a cancer patient who tried to get medication that had been covered by federal agency DADSE, but which President Javier Milei dissolved, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Claudia Caballero poses with a photo of her late son Alexis Almiron, a cancer patient who tried to get medication that had been covered by federal agency DADSE, but which President Javier Milei dissolved, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)