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Health personnel, with guards, work in 30 years, the equivalent of more than 40 years in other professions, the union assures. FSS-CCOO concentration Concentration in front of the Ministry of Social Security. Need your help to continue reporting Become a member of Nuevatribuna Around a thousand people gathered this Tuesday to request that the study procedure begin for the establishment of reducing coefficients aimed at lowering the retirement age in health and social health activities to 60 years. A mobilization called by the FSS-CCOO, after not having obtained any response to the letter it addressed to the Social Security Directorate last October, the union explains in a statement. According to article 206 of the General Law of Social Security, the ordinary retirement age may be lowered or anticipated in those groups or professional activities, whose jobs are of an exceptionally painful, dangerous, toxic or unhealthy nature and show high rates of morbidity or mortality.
For the health and social health work requires high physical and psychological demand. “As the age of workers increases, the time they have been performing that job simultaneously increases, generating an obvious imbalance between the capabilities of professionals and the requirements of the job. And all of this is conditioned by working conditions characterized by Guatemala Mobile Number List high rates of accidents, danger, unhealthiness, toxicity, shift work and night work,” he says. 30 groups, waiting for their right to early retirement to be recognized According to data provided by CCOO, health personnel, with guards, work in 30 years, the equivalent of more than 40 years in other professions. Furthermore, these professionals have a high rate of accidents and occupational diseases. Given that their main activity consists of the treatment and care of patients, the most important occupational health problems suffered by these personnel come from the physical and emotional contact they establish with patients. To the musculoskeletal injuries caused by workload and handling of patients, we must add pathologies of psychosocial origin (anxiety, depression, digestive disorders, sleep disorders, etc.
Driven by situations of stress or burnout (inability to endure the high emotional demand associated with work). FSS-CCOO Concentration 1 “Therapeutic failures, the special attention that many patients need, urgent cases, shift work, the way work is organized, the scarcity of resources, etc.,” are determining factors for the appearance of these risks, states the labor union. Added to this is the contagion of more or less dangerous diseases, such as tuberculosis, hepatitis B and C or AIDS, and currently Covid-19. Early retirement for workers exposed to asbestos According to data from the Carlos III Health Institute, from June 2020 to the present, 259,681 professionals in the health and socio-health sectors have been infected with Covid , of which a large number of these suffer from persistent Covid, which causes a maintenance of symptoms above the time considered normal in this disease. For this reason, the union asks that all this be taken into account at the time of retirement, "because it deserves special treatment by applying a correction factor in the years of contributions, as in other professions with hardship, danger, responsibility and similar demands.