MCSS, CEOE and the Ministry of Inclusion and SS sign a collaboration agreement for COVID vaccination
The firm establishes a general framework of collaboration between the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, the CEOE foundation and the Association of Work Accident Insurance Companies (AMAT), to achieve the initiatives framed within the Sumamos Salud + Economía Plan.
It will allow the Social Security Collaborating Mutual Funds to contribute some 7,000 health professionals and hundreds of healthcare centers to the COVID vaccination process in Spain.
By virtue of this cooperation, the Mutua once again makes itself available to the Public Health Service, as it did in 2020, to care for COVID-19 patients referred to the Fraternidad-Muprespa Havana Hospital from other centers in the Community of Madrid.
The headquarters of the Ministry has hosted the signing ceremony , which will streamline the procedures so that Mutual Insurance Companies can vaccinate, depending on the needs of the Autonomous Communities.“Immediately you (Mutuas) can get to work and collaborate in the vaccination processes,” has pointed out José Luis Escrivá, holder of the Inclusion, Social Security and Migration portfolio.
In this way we reiterate our willingness so that the Public Health Service can count on both health personnel and our healthcare centers, with the aim of ensuring that the vaccination process reaches the greatest number of citizens as soon as possible.
This commitment was already evident last year, when the Fraternidad-Muprespa Habana Hospital treated COVID patients referred from other hospitals in the Community of Madrid, thus contributing to alleviating the care pressure of the first months of the pandemic.
The president of CEOE also spoke at the event,Antonio Garamendi and the president of AMAT,José Carlos Lacasa. Garamendi has assured that the vaccination rate can increase substantially thanks to the agreement, since "Companies with more than 250 workers will be able to vaccinate by using their own health services when the vaccines are available and the health authority allows it, and also because the Mutual Funds reach SMEs better."
The president of AMAThas shown the Minister the immediate availability of the Mutual Insurance Companies and has urged that these entities be taken more into account to make “more than what we are doing.”
Minister Escrivá has stressed the importance of collaboration between administration and institutions, giving as an example the signing of this agreement:“Today we have shown how different institutions should work on an issue as crucial for our society and our economy as the fight against the pandemic.” He has also assured that this collaboration will allow us to meet the Government's objective of having 70% of the population vaccinated in the summer.
Link with the interventions of the signatories
