Monique Garcia He remembered this evening that sick leave “is a medical act and we will defend it until death. The doctor tells you that you must be on sick leave at the same time as he prescribes you medication. “Health comes first in all the views we can have on this subject.”
The Minister of Health made reference to it, in the program Hour 25 of Cadena Ser, after the announcement made this Thursday by the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, who announced his intention to tackle a temporary disability reformsick leave, to provide more flexibility in certain cases allowing people to return to work.
“The word flexible bothers us” but it is true, he added, that during the consultation there may be cases of progressive reincorporationfor example, a patient with months of sick leave due to depression who, instead of going from zero to 100, must go through a progressive incorporation, this possibility can be explored.
However, for García, the question of “volunteering is always open to interpretations that can be harmful” and he insisted that “health comes first in all the visions” they may have on this issue.
Muface Renovation
On another note, Mónica García was asked about the renewal of the Muface systemwhich covers one and a half million civil servants, and over which there is disagreement between the government and insurers due to the lack of financing that they denounce and which forces them to suffer losses due to these economic conditions.
In this sense, the head of Health was cautious, since They are in a “dialogue process” to renew the agreement, even though he declared that Muface “is not a priority”.
“It is true that it is a subsystem within the system which is anachronistic and which gives conditions different from those of the rest of the citizens, which in my opinion are not better,” he said. he declared.
In any case, García assured that “not on the table” delete Muface: “This was never on the table. Now we must study the effectiveness of the system as a whole.”
