As of today, 1,700 unvaccinated health workers are at their posts

They’re coming back today in public hospitals, after 16 months of absence, 1,700 healthcare workers who had not been vaccinated against the corona virus.

Of these, 170 are doctors, 800 are nurses and the rest are administrative employees.

It is recalled that the return of those vaccinated against the coronavirus was decided by health workers, after an appeal by POEDIN, the Third Department of the Council of State (StE) which deemed illegal and unconstitutional the extension of the mandatory vaccination of workers in health structures (hospitals), from 4/14 and until 12/31 of 2022.

Yesterday, the Joint Ministerial Decision (JMA) of the relevant ministries was published in the Government Gazette, on the issue of Emergency measures to protect public health against Covid-19.

In KYA measures are foreseen for unvaccinated staff that returns to hospitals. Among other things, it provides:

• Mandatory use of a high respiratory protection mask (FFP2 or N95 or KN95)
• Carrying out a diagnostic test twice (2) times a week using the rapid detection of the antigen of the coronavirus COVID-19 (rapid test) in private diagnostic laboratories, as defined in p.d. 84/2001 (A’ 70), or in private clinics or pharmacies or a private doctor, at their own expense. The staff in question must provide the result of the diagnostic check to the Head of the structure where they work.
• The medical, paramedical and nursing staff of the structures herein do not provide their services in closed hospitalization clinics such as Intensive Care Units, Artificial Kidney Units, Oncology Units and Neonatal Units.

also the Committee on Nosocomial Infections each health structure may specialize closed hospitalization clinics and decide in which additional Units of the structure the staff in question does not provide their services.
The head of each health structure must submit to the Administration of the structure he heads, every week, a report on compliance or non-compliance with the above measures for unvaccinated medical, paramedical and nursing staff.
According to the same gazette, hospital staff who have received a special exemption from the mandatory vaccination are also required to undergo a mandatory diagnostic test twice (2) times a week with a rapid test.

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