After many months of struggle, suffering and sick leave, several nursing assistants, after winning a competitive exam and taking possession of their job at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, are going to see how their final job position adapts to their possibilities in depending on your disability.
The Ministry of Labor, through the Labor Inspection, has issued a definitive requirement to force the Gregorio Marañón Hospital and the Madrid Health Service (Sermas) to comply with the Occupational Risk Prevention Law and “immediately” adapt the jobs of people with disabilities to their possibilities. That is, it establishes “technical and organizational measures to ensure compliance with the provisions of the technical reports.”
This inspection came after a CCOO complaint by seven workers, in June of last year, in which it was stated that the Madrid hospital “did not adapt the position of the auxiliary nursing care technical staff” to their disabilities, thus which considered that there was a “violation of the fundamental rights of these pre-professionals”, despite having reports that showed different degrees of disability. These people took their position in May of last year and a few days later some of them were on sick leave because they could not do night shifts due to the medications they took or because they had been placed in units incompatible with their illnesses.
These professionals, according to the union, have “reports of recognized disability with physical limitations”, which were not taken into account when awarding them their permanent job, “which constitutes a serious violation of the provisions of article 25 of The law of prevention of occupational risks”.
The note made public by CCOO states that if the Gregorio Marañón Hospital and Sermas do not act, the Council of Ministers could take measures, according to royal decree 707/2002. What’s more, it highlights that, in some cases, “their previous pathologies have worsened, worsening their state of health.”
Manuel Barroso, secretary of occupational health at CCOO Sanidad in Madrid, explains that the union “will begin the appropriate procedures to demand repair of the damage caused and adopt the appropriate prevention measures for each case.” In addition, CCOO is going to demand “social and economic compensation” for these people who accessed a job in public health through a competition for the places designated for the disability shift and were finally not awarded a place adapted to their needs. .
