The Government of Puig condemned to compensate doctors for leaving them unprotected against Covid

The Medical Union of the Valencian Community CESM CV has just won a historic sentence. The ruling, issued by the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community, recognizes the right of health workers to receive compensation for the lack of protection material with which the Generalitat de Ximo Puig forced hospital personnel to have to fight against the coronavirus The ruling admits that the social jurisdiction is the one that must establish both the infringement of the Law on Prevention of Occupational Risks in terms of the lack of individual protection equipment and collective protection, as well as the specific right of doctors to the that represents the Medical Union of the Valencian Community CESM-CV, to be deserving of compensation derived from having worked without adequate protection. But it establishes, as the union points out, “the right of doctors to be compensated for their work in the improper conditions of our country, and at the same time that the Conselleria de Sanitat-Generalitat Valenciana, is declared guilty of the disastrous management that all the doctors suffered and we hope it will not happen again. ”From the CESM union they point out that“ we all remember how our fellow doctors, and also the rest of the health personnel, had to face the Covid-19 pandemic during the months of March as of May 2020, without any type of protection ». These were dramatic moments in which the professionals had to provide themselves in any way and form to care for patients, in any way, less than ideal due to the lack of approved protection material and a Covid detection test.And it is that the inability of the socialist administration of Ximo Puig to acquire these products led the health workers to have to expose themselves to the disease in order to help save the lives of the thousands of coronavirus patients who arrived and crowded into hospitals “They were denied their masks” “We all remember how they were denied masks, divers, goggles, gloves, etc., and how they had to make them out of garbage bags, accept non-homologated homemade masks, etc.” They point out from the union. “We all remember how [doctors and other health personnel] were subjected to additional pressure by having to attend to patients without any type of protection, putting their lives and their families at risk,” they add from the training that has now won the judicial claim to the Generalitat de Ximo Puig. Now, almost a year later, the Valencian Supreme Court has rejected the multiple obstacles filed by the health administration. Among those obstacles, CESM recalls that “they even denied the evidence of the situation experienced.” But the Justice has overturned all the allegations of the Generalitat and has returned the case to the Alicante court so that, “after specifying the compensation that each union member is entitled to, it may proceed to set the amount to which they are entitled” According to the same union sources, CESM does not hide their satisfaction with the court ruling:«We are pleased that the Valencian Justice recognizes the right of the doctors that we represent to be compensated for their work in the improper conditions of our country, and at the same time that the Conselleria de Sanitat-Generalitat Valenciana, is declared guilty of the disastrous management that we all suffered and we hope it will not happen again. “The CESM CV Medical Union also warns that” it will continue to demand and demand compliance with the right that doctors have to carry out their work with protection of their safety, health and personal integrity , in short, with due protection, which in turn is that of the citizens they serve.