Can tourists/temporary residents use public healthcare system?

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Hi - can anyone point me to an official Argentine government website that verifies that tourists and temporary residents can use the public healthcare system? I've found lots of websites that say tourists/residents can use the system, free of charge, but I still cannot find anything from the government that also says this.

Thanks!
 
The first paragraph in the link Lunar provided translates as follows:

The Migration Law 25,871 –sanctioned on December 17, 2003 (B.O. 1/21/2004), regulated by decree 616/2010 of May 3, 2010 (B.O. 5/6/2010)– expressly recognizes in article 8 that: "Access to the right to health, social assistance or health care may not be denied or restricted in any case to all foreigners who require it, regardless of their immigration status."
 
Hi - can anyone point me to an official Argentine government website that verifies that tourists and temporary residents can use the public healthcare system? I've found lots of websites that say tourists/residents can use the system, free of charge, but I still cannot find anything from the government that also says this.

Thanks!
At the city hospitals in Buenos Aires anybody from anywhere in the world can get free access. The problem is usually standing on very long lines very early in the morning to get some appointments with speciaists. Once I tried to get an appointment for an endodontist at the hospital of odontology and after I saw such a long line (mainly people from neighbour countries) I just gave up and switched to private health care. This is the reason why porteños I know don't usually use the public system. https://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/salu.../centros-de-salud-y-centros-medicos-barriales
 
The first paragraph in the link Lunar provided translates as follows:

The Migration Law 25,871 –sanctioned on December 17, 2003 (B.O. 1/21/2004), regulated by decree 616/2010 of May 3, 2010 (B.O. 5/6/2010)– expressly recognizes in article 8 that: "Access to the right to health, social assistance or health care may not be denied or restricted in any case to all foreigners who require it, regardless of their immigration status."

So how does it work? you go to the Urgencia with your passport to request Attention by a doctor ? they may ask you to wait , long time, or send you to the front office to request a turno..? with a specialist or Clinico . The turno may be for January. I have doubts that without a DNI you will get medical help--?? In my perssonal XP . At Rivadavia Hospital . or Hospital de Clinicas?
If you are brought in by ambulance may be different ?
 
So how does it work? you go to the Urgencia with your passport to request Attention by a doctor?

I did exactly that, on a Sunday morning in May, when I was living in Capital Federal....with a tourist visa.

they may ask you to wait , long time, or send you to the front office to request a turno..? with a specialist or Clinico . The turno may be for January.

As I was at the Urgencia, I was seen almost immediately after I provided my `passport and told them why I was there.

I have doubts that without a DNI you will get medical help--?? In my perssonal XP . At Rivadavia Hospital . or Hospital de Clinicas?

At the Hospital de Clinicas

If you are brought in by ambulance may be different ?

Actually, I was ambulatory (which means I was a "walk in").

When I asked if I could pay, I was met with a look of surprise and a smille...

...and the answer was no.🤠
 
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I did exactly that, on a Sunday morning in May, when I was living in Capital Federal....with a tourist visa.



As I was at the Urgencia, I was seen almost immediately after I provided my `passport and told them why I was there.



At the Hospital de Clinicas



Actually, I was ambulatory (which means I was a "walk in").

When I asked if I could pay, I was met with a look of surprise and a smille...

...and the answer was no.🤠
As they say horses for courses, I went always to Hospital de Clinicas at night or weekends and claimed I was in pain claiming it was urgent , if you go daytime they send you to ask for a turno.

I was always told the doctors are up on the patient floors, when available will let you know, the wait could be more than 30 min. Several seniors were waiting. This was 10 yrs.ago?

All of our XP's above are perhaps outdated, was there 2 months ago and the mobs of current immigrants, like Venezuelans and others, have changed the procedures and service...

You were lucky and I hope everybody gets the same service as you did.
 
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