2024-01-08 11:03:33
CARMEN FERNNDEZ
Barcelona
THE WORLD
Madrid
Updated Monday, January 8, 2024 – 09:51
Mnica García assures that it is a “structural measure already in many countries”
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Given the increase in flu and Covid cases, the Minister of Health, Monica Garcia, has announced that Health will today request the autonomous communities to self-justify the three-day sick leave for those who have a mild illness.
It is, as she herself announced on Onda Cero, a measure “that is already structural in many countries” and “a demand from professionals” to “self-justify a mild illness during the first three days” without burdening more work. health centers.
“Given the current situation, we ask that a system to manage sick leave due to flu and covid telematically. There are already precedents. The bureaucratic process of making a withdrawal hinders attendance and even more so now at the moment we are in,” said Jaume Padrés, president of the Official College of Doctors of Barcelona (COMB, the second largest in Spain), through his account. of the social network X (formerly Twitter).
“Indicating sick leave is part of the care act and, therefore, is the function of a doctor, but not its processing. There is an urgent need to implement the figure of the clinical assistant for this and other administrative management functions,” has argued. And he added that “a certificate of absence is NOT a medical act. There are millions of ‘visits’ that hinder healthcare activity. Having accepted this in the past was a mistake; to maintain it now would be negligent, also considering the main problem of the system: the lack of toilets”.
The Doctors of Catalonia union (Metges de Catalunya, MC), for its part, has expressed itself in favor of recovering the sick leave request mechanism through the self-responsible certificate, through which users can process short-term work incapacity. duration without having to travel to health centers. This solution, MC recalls, “was already activated during the different waves of the pandemic and demonstrated its effectiveness in reducing visits to primary care centers.”
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