Doctors and nurses from Buenos Aires’ leading children’s hospital marched on Friday alongside university staff, in protest at President Javier Milei’s vetoes of funding increases for their sectors, part of his austerity drive. Affected sectors are preparing another protest next Wednesday, when the lower house Chamber of Deputies will debate whether to overturn Milei’s vetoes of the university funding law and of a law declaring a paediatric emergency at Garrahan hospital. Last week Congress rejected one of Milei’s vetoes for the first time, striking down his move against a law that granted more funds to disability services – a sector shaken by corruption allegations involving his sister and presidential chief of staff, Karina Milei. She has been summoned by Congress to answer accusations of alleged bribes and kickbacks in the purchase of medicines for the ANDIS national disability agency. At Friday’s protest, numerous placards bore the phrase “three percent” – Karina’s alleged cut from contracts under investigation by the courts.