Municipal policemen refuse to report PCR positives in homes due to the lack of PPE

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The municipal police of

represented by the

have announced that they will refuse to monitor

patients

at their homes if they are not provided with personal protective equipment.

The agents have explained that they will not go home with

for coronavirus positives to communicate the PCR test due to the danger they will run, since they will be

who have to ask for the

and who must be forced to

a document.

The

recognizes that Health has asked the

for

help to

communicate positive PCRs in cases in which it has been impossible to do so.

"This collaboration has been taking place for several weeks and in total

that have been made throughout the city of Madrid have

, a very lower figure", they indicate from the Madrid City Council, which clarifies that for "the performance of these tasks is requested a specific report from

which is being scrupulously complied with.

Also from another union of the Municipal Police

have requested that “immediately they stop executing notifications of requirements to people positive for Covid.

that municipal police officers have to directly notify and communicate a person infected by Covid, with the only protection of a surgical mask, affecting not only the health of the colleague who executes the notification, but also for the rest of the Police of the integral unit, who will later come into contact with him, not to mention the possible extension of the contagion to family members and the rest of the citizenry, “they have indicated from UPM.

The

Spokesperson

reported yesterday that "they are

the agents to the

to notify Covid-19 positives, when other groups are provided with complete means of PPE in those same situations, only equipping the agents with surgical masks or the famous Graphebo masks that the Firemen themselves refused to wear due to their dubious efficiency. "

From the

the Madrid City Council they answer that all municipal policemen wear a mask and that they

to carry out their work.

Moreover, they add, "they have had PPE since the beginning of the pandemic, at the beginning of March, and it was the first police force to be classified as high risk and equipped with protection equipment."

They also ensure that

PCR

have been carried

on the Municipal Police staff to "locate and separate possible cases, in order to avoid the transmission of the coronavirus within the body."

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