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The Government of Catalonia wants to delegate to companies the detection of new infections by coronavirus, given the limitations of the public health system to track down those infected.

The Catalan Department of Health urges the occupational risk prevention services to "help control transmission" of the Covid-19 with actions that, in practice, suppose to supply its functions. In a protocol drawn up on May 29 and to which EL MUNDO has had access, the Generalitat urges companies to "establish a telephone consultation service for their workers and for the workers of their client companies on the Covid-19 pandemic », In order to assume the role played by 061 , the public health care telephone number of the Generalitat.

"Due to the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic, 061, despite the increase in personnel, has been subjected to an oversaturation of calls that, at times, may have compromised or compromised the speed of response," admits the Department of Health in the manual that bears the name "Guide for action and collaboration of occupational risk prevention services to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic".

After acknowledging the weaknesses of its health care system, the Generalitat asks the companies' prevention services that their private coronavirus telephone service be active "from eight in the morning to eight in the afternoon" and, "preferably , the seven days of the week". Through this system, companies must attend to the inquiries of their employees "following the instructions and guides of the health authorities" and, in the event that they present symptoms compatible with a suspected case of Covid-19, they must "indicate that You have to perform a PCR test in the first 24 hours. "

OWN TESTING

Also at this point, the Generalitat tries to download the diagnostic test to companies. In its protocol, it invites occupational risk prevention services to carry out the PCR themselves "if they have the possibility and meet the established requirements." Otherwise, it urges the company to refer its workers to a public health center to undergo the test.

"It is not a question of replacing 061 by receiving calls from anyone," the Generalitat excuses itself in its protocol. "The occupational risk prevention services are called to collaborate with the health authorities in the early detection of all cases compatible with Covid-19, in their contacts and in their notification," argues the Catalan Department of Health.

"INVESTIGATION" OF CONTACTS

Thus, the Generalitat establishes that the occupational risk prevention services will be in charge of tracking the contacts of the infected workers. "They will be in charge of establishing mechanisms for the investigation and monitoring of close contacts of those suspected and confirmed cases, of the companies they serve," says the protocol.

This delegation in the companies carried out by the Generalitat connects with another controversial decision, that of awarding Ferroser Servicios Auxiliaries, a subsidiary of the Ferrovial construction company, a contract of 17 million to trace the positive contacts of coronavirus. After criticism received for outsourcing the monitoring of potential infected, the Catalan Government now intends to reverse this award, which could involve an outlay of almost one million public euros in compensation to the beneficiary of the contract.

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