translated from Spanish: For COVID-19 critical stage care December-January-February, IMSS guarantees coverage

Michoacán.- The Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) guarantees coverage with health personnel for the care of PATIENTS COVID-19 from December 2020 to February 2021, and thereby make the “last pull” in the most critical stage of the pandemic.
To this end, IMSS and the National Social Security Workers’ Union (SNTSS) signed an agreement granting benefits to medical and nursing personnel who serve in COVID response teams in converted medical units for the care of patients with this disease and in COVID temporary units of the Ordinary Regime and IMSS-BIENESTAR.
As part of this firm, IMSS CEO Maestro Zoé Robledo noted that the “last pull” consists of three points that benefit doctors, nurses and all health personnel who make Social Security stand amid the biggest public health challenge in the past 100 years.
He explained that the first stimulus was the COVID Guard, an economic incentive aimed at staff in the medical and nursing categories who made up the COVID response teams and who worked the guards of the mandatory rest days.
 Zoé Robledo stressed that the second support is the COVID Commission, which consists of the double payment of the salary for the duration of the commission to staff working in COVID care units with hospital bed occupancy of 50 per cent or more.
Commissioner staff will be able to enjoy pay-back days on December 24 and 25, 2020, the DIRECTOR-General of IMSS added.
It was abused that another stimulus was the unwrought vacation for staff in the medical and nursing categories who provided their services in hospitals with a high burden of illness, with cases requiring uptrend intubation and hospital bed occupancy of 50 per cent or more.
“This last pull,” he said, is not to let his guard down because the pandemic is not yet over, and this covenant is a social recognition of an important profession, is to be one team for the good of the people of Mexico.
For his part, the Secretary General of SNTSS, Dr Arturo Olivares Cerda, stressed that the stimulus granted by the Convention is an act of social and labour justice for women and men who currently face to sustain social stability and health in Mexico.
“The battle against COVID-19 is not over; on the contrary, it intensifies more strongly. The country is in a critical moment. This agreement seeks to support and encourage workers who are committed to giving the extra,” he reiterated.
He emphasized that SNTSS and the Institute work hand in hand looking for this “last push” to give benefits to workers who deliver their ability and talent to deal with the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic.
“We are in an area of combat where we must, with intelligence, unity and solidarity among all of us, give the pandemic a severe blow that allows us to reduce its danger,” he said.
The signing of the agreement was attended by Dr. Victor Hugo Borja Aburto, Director of Medical Benefits; Master David Razú Aznar, Director of Institutional Linkage and Delegation Evaluation; Master Marco Aurelio Ramírez Corzo, Director of Finance; Maestro Antonio Pérez Fonticoba, Legal Director; Bachelor Humberto Pedrero Moreno, Director of Management; Héctor Robles Peiro, holder of the Delegation Evaluation Unit; and Luisa Obrador Garrido, of the general management.
On the part of SNTSS, Dr. Rafael Olivos Hernández, Secretary of Labor; and Claudia Elena Ruiz Maciel, legal adviser.
In person, the holders of the IMSS Representation Offices in Chiapas, Dr. Enrique Leobardo Ureña Bogarín, attended in person; and Campeche, Dr. Carlos Félix Medina Villegas. Through videoconference the other 33 IMSS representatives in the country, and the 25 directors of High Specialty Medical Units.

Original source in Spanish