IESS says that the departure of health personnel is due to the termination of contracts
-
Loading... - Isabel Mejia
- 04 Apr 2022
- 336 Views
- 0 Like
- 0 Comment
The majority of dismissals are concentrated in the Hospital IESS Quito Sur. These are people who fulfilled the term of their emerging contracts.
Through a statement, the IESS Quito Sur Hospital reported that in the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic, it hired additional health personnel , under the modality of emerging contracts that, currently, have completed their term of validity.
In this context, the institution terminated the labor ties of 153 employees who had this type of contract . Among them are 15 specialist doctors in the areas of Critical Care and Emergency. These specialists, however, would be reinstated in the coming days, according to the institution.
These dismissals , according to the IESS version, do not constitute “massive dismissals of their personnel ”. Additionally, it was ensured that the labor and constitutional rights of 32 health workers who belong to vulnerable groups have been respected, keeping them under a dependency relationship and in the process of regularization.
“It is important to highlight that 786 definitive appointments were delivered to health personnel under the Humanitarian Law, the same ones that have not been affected and have job stability,” the statement points out.
Given the requests to reinstate all the dismissed servers, the IESS announced that, according to the institutional need, each of the cases will be analyzed, in order to reinstate the professionals required to cover the demand for care.
In addition, in the face of complaints that the departure of officials is affecting the quality of care, the IESS authorities have said that the corresponding measures are being taken to guarantee care for the insured who arrive at hospitals such as Quito Sur , which for more than two years it was designated as a sentinel hospital for the care of patients with COVID-19.
Dismissals not only occurred in Quito
According to the Reaccion Ecuador collective, information is being collected to obtain a consolidated database with the total number of people who were released on March 31, 2022.
However, a preliminary report states that 160 people left the IESS Quito Sur ; 25 in the IESS of Ambato ; 20 in the IESS of Riobamba ; 15 in the IESS of Latacunga ; and more than 80 dismissals in the IESS of Quevedo .
Those affected assure that their departures are unfair for two reasons. In the first place, because they were the ones who faced the health emergency on the front line. And they point out that, secondly, the Humanitarian Law, approved on May 15, 2020 by the Assembly , required that all health workers (recruited during the pandemic) receive an indefinite contract and job stability. Read More...
