The situation also puts back under the microscope the role of the hospital management and the possible collusion between health authorities and the provincial political power. Since then, critical sectors of Kirchnerism and the provincial government have denounced that this medical case would be used as an argument to prolong hospitalizations and mitigate the conditions of serving the sentence, in a dynamic that, if confirmed, would imply an undue political intervention in the public health system. Versions about the preparation of an 'all-out' hospitalization caused additional indignation in a context of severe deterioration of the Buenos Aires health system, marked by lack of supplies, delays in care, and salary demands from health personnel. In this context, it is warned that the manipulation of hospitalizations or diagnoses to benefit a particular person would not only falsify medical acts but could also constitute administrative and criminal liabilities. Meanwhile, Sala's circle continues to promote mobilizations and demands for her release, under the argument of a supposed political persecution, a thesis that has already been dismissed on repeated occasions by the courts that intervened in her cases. La Plata, January 18, 2026 – Total News Agency-TNA – The judicial and detention situation of Milagro Sala has once again become the center of controversy after information emerged from sources close to the former social leader and now convicted of corruption, pointing to alleged political maneuvers to guarantee her differentiated health treatment at the San Roque de Gonnet Hospital, in the city of La Plata. Although Sala is not currently serving her sentence in a common prison, her detention regime responds to judicial provisions linked to her health status, under the control and supervision of the Judiciary. Last December, Sala was transferred to the Gonnet Hospital after a health decompensation, which led to a temporary change in her place of detention. The version indicates that an exclusive room, with characteristics similar to a private apartment, equipped with air conditioning, premium cable television, and streaming platforms, would be destined for her as part of a prolonged stay while the detainee advances with requests for release. The accusation generated strong questioning from the hospital's professional staff, as it concerns a person with a firm conviction for illicit association, fraud against the public administration, and extortion, whose sentence was unified to 15 years in prison and ratified by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, and given the scarce resources of the hospital. For opposition sectors, the attempt to artificially improve her detention conditions reinforces the perception of a double standard: indulgence for Kirchnerism-affiliated leaders and extreme rigor for the rest of the citizens. The case thus adds a new chapter to a history traversed by corruption, politics, and the discretionary use of the State, in a destroyed province, and once again raises the debate on equality before the law and the management of public resources in a province where the health system faces a structural crisis that is increasingly deep. Kicillof publicly adhered to the 'political prisoner' narrative that Kirchnerism has built around Sala. According to these testimonies, the Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof would have held conversations with the hospital director, Josefina Saintout, sister of Florencia Saintout, former dean of the Faculty of Journalism and Social Communication of the National University of La Plata, with the objective of preparing a 'fake' hospitalization especially conditioned for Sala.
