About forty health workers per shift, including nurses, assistants, guards, administrative assistants, students and ambulance personnel, report that the management of the Severo Ochoa Hospital, a health center located in Leganés, has a tiny rest room, whose dimensions They are 2.3 by 1.37 meters.
According to CCOO, said cabin was enabled “temporarily” in the time of Covid “and has not been relocated again, making it permanent.”
The professionals, CCOO emphasizes, “are forced to crowd themselves in that space, which is not in accordance with the necessary requirements for a rest room in the emergency room of a hospital, where they work seven-hour day shifts and 10-hour night shifts.” . To which they add, “only the emergency doctors, twenty per shift between doctors and residents, have another differentiated space with its own toilet.”
The furniture in the room is another of the demands of CCOO Sanidad Madrid. “It is not consistent with a rest room, adapted bathroom chairs are used, there is no sink, the microwave has had to be purchased by the workers themselves and many times they are forced to use it to heat the patients’ food because there is no other one in emergencies for this purpose,” they criticize.
CCOO calls on the hospital management to initiate the necessary procedures to undertake the works to refurbish a new rest area in general emergencies at the Severo Ochoa Hospital in Leganés. They assure that in the current cabin “not only are the professionals overcrowded in an undignified manner, but it is at the limit of current regulations on occupational health.”
