In Chaco, demands for medications and treatments have escalated to the courts, once again placing the Social Security Institute of Santiago del Estero (INSSSEP) at the center of a crisis that is no longer handled just at service windows but in tribunals. According to Argentina News Agency (NA), in recent weeks, there has been a multiplication of cases where affiliates have denounced delays, interruptions, and changes in providers without clear responses, directly impacting high-cost therapies. The most delicate phenomenon is that the demand has become 'structural': legal actions as a means to access benefits that should be guaranteed by the system, as described by the local press. While the social security defends itself case by case, in parallel, the Executive branch has advanced with the regulation of the voluntary retirement regime for state employees who contribute to INSSSEP. The conflict is not only judicial: there have also been calls for mobilizations due to the lack of medications and the continuity of treatments, with families and patients pressuring on the streets. The situation is aggravated by another fact that reveals failures in health control: in the province, the federal judiciary has requested to elevate to trial a case for forged prescriptions that would have affected PAMI funds.
