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The Government will expedite the procedures so that around 200 foreign health professionals residing in the country have the necessary authorization to carry out their work in Spain and thus join, in the coming days, the National Health System (SNS) to deal with the COVID-19 epidemic.

This was announced this Friday by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, the Ministry of Universities, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function, which have launched a coordinated urgent action to increase the number of foreign health professionals in willingness to work in Spain "immediately".

In this way, the Government calculates that around 200 doctors, doctors, nurses and national nurses from third countries and currently already residing in Spain will be able to join the health system in the coming days.

To this end, the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration has promoted the administrative streamlining mechanisms provided for in the Common Administrative Procedure, which allow prioritizing administrative records of residence and work authorization that affect workers in an essential sector before the health emergency.

Thus, priority has been given to residence and work permits, certified titles and recognized professional skills "to give an immediate response at a time of maximum demand and high demand for these profiles in our labor market."

A coordination protocol has also been drawn up between the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, that of Universities and that of Health that allows an exchange of information, consultation and effective resolution for the implementation of the measure.

For its part, the Ministry of Universities, since last Friday, has resolved a total of 100 medical certificate approval files and, so far this year, 762 healthcare professionals have been approved.

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