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 Migration, the CEOE foundation and the Association of Mutual Insurance Companies of Work Accidents (AMAT), for the achievement of the initiatives framed within the Sumamos Salud + Plan Economy. ___
It will allow the Mutual Collaborators with Social Security to contribute some 7,000 health professionals and hundreds of healthcare centers to the COVID vaccination process in Spain. ___
Under 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 speed up the procedures so that the Mutual Insurance Companies can vaccinate, depending on the needs of the Autonomous Communities. “Immediately you (the Mutual Insurance Companies) can get to work and collaborate in the vaccination processes,” has pointed out José Luis Escrivá, head 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 healthcare pressure of the first months of the pandemic.
At the event, the president of CEOE, Antonio Garamendi and the president of AMAT, José Carlos Lacasa also spoke. Garamendi has assured that the rate of vaccination can increase substantially thanks to the agreement, since ”companies with more than 250 workers will be able to vaccinate by resorting to their own health services when the vaccines are available and the health authority allows it, and also because the Mutual Funds better reach the SMEs”.
The president of AMAT has shown the Minister the immediate readiness of the Mutual Insurance Companies and has urged that these entities be taken more into account to do “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 so crucial for our society and our economy such 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
