UGT denounces that the health transport joint venture lacks an external ambulance disinfection company
The health emergency technicians are mainly outraged by the fact that three of the private companies with which the Conselleria de Sanitat has subcontracted the ambulance service do not have a company specialized in the disinfection of vehicles and have even tried to pressure those that have contracted it that it is not necessary. “We have to clean the plasticized TNA and SVB units ourselves after a transfer with a possible coronavirus without being trained environmental technicians for it,” lament the workers. Similarly, they ensure that they have to take dirty clothes home, which can also be a source of spread.
This is what they say from the UGT Health Department. "Ambulances Ayuda, Ambulevante and CSA, lack an accredited company for the disinfection of ambulances, but their irresponsibility is even more serious in these times of pandemic, by pressuring the other two companies that are members of the UTE, Autonomous Ambulances and Edetana Ambulances that , if they have contracted a disinfection company, so that they terminate the contract with it," explains José Berenguer, head of UGT.
The Ministry has subcontracted 90 percent of the ambulance services to these private companies, which affects some 1,400 workers. “Until now, the disinfection and sterilization of vehicles after a suspicious transfer of a patient with coronavirus was carried out by specialized personnel outside the service, but now they want the ambulances that have transferred infected patients to disinfect and sterilize them by their own health personnel, with the risk that this implies for the workers, in order to save some money", criticize Tessinf sources.
For their part, UGT sources assure that they have contacted the management of the companies that do not have an ambulance disinfection service so that they maintain that service with the company accredited for it, since this requires the technical specifications of the transport tender. sanitary.
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These same sources insist that both Ambulances Help, as well as Ambulevante and CSA, carry out this disinfection by unqualified personnel, as regulated by European Directive 98/8/EC, and Royal Decree 830/2010, of June 25, by which establishes the regulations governing training to carry out treatments with biocides.
This regulation establishes that it must be the technical personnel accredited in treatments with biocides, with the appropriate Protective Equipment (PPE), as well as accredited companies and with the corresponding ISO, who must carry out these tasks. "These companies cannot claim that the Health Emergency Technicians, without the relevant knowledge, or the appropriate PPE, carry out the corresponding and correct disinfection of the units, nor can the maintenance personnel, etc., not accredited for it, that with the same clothing then come into contact with the patients", they clarify from UGT.
The situation is aggravated because the companies do not wash the clothes of the Technical personnel in Sanitary Emergencies (TES), who thus have to take them to their own homes. Likewise, UGT sources assure that they do not comply with point 7.4 of the maintenance of the vehicles and their equipment. Which, among other things, regulates the guarantee of the cleaning and disinfection of all vehicles, including the assistance cabin, as well as the maintenance, cleaning and disinfection of vehicles with fixed or variable availability, for 12 hours, which will be carried out outside the hours established in the who has to serve.
From UGT they inform that they have sent a letter to the Ministry, so that, through the High Inspection, everything included in the health transport tender is complied with, and "the corresponding correction is given to what seems to us to be irresponsible by these companies, which does not make them worthy of providing a public service like this.