Under the theme "The Challenges of Public Policies to Reduce Social Inequalities in Health," this event encourages dialogue and debate among hundreds of professionals in this field.

Within the framework of the XIV Health Congress of the Municipality of Rosario, the First University Congress on Health was opened.

This Congress is established as a space for meeting, debate, and sharing on the collective construction of health in the city. In a context of economic, social, and health crisis, the event aims to serve as a bridge for reflection and knowledge exchange, with the goal of generating innovative and effective responses to the current challenges of the health system.

Aimed at healthcare and social workers, university students, and the general public, the event will take place over two days and feature prominent speakers from the healthcare field. 

“Today's meeting must be an act of vindication of the public, of access to healthcare as a right, at a time when the most basic, the elemental, what we thought was beyond discussion, is once again being debated like few times before,” stressed Rector Franco Bartolacci, adding: “This history that this city has been able to build, like very few other places, fills us with pride and guarantees, here like few other places, that every person can access quality healthcare, regardless of where they were born, under what conditions, or where they live.” 

In this regard, he argued that "just as having or not having access to excellent public education, or having or not having resources for scientific production and knowledge generation, is not the same thing, neither is having or not having a State that allocates part of its budget to these public policies, nor a health policy that guarantees this access as a right, as is achieved here."

Furthermore, Bartolacci emphasized the need to value and defend public health and education. “This, which we often take for granted, also happens to us…”