The Prevention delegates of the SITES union (Health Emergency Transport Union) of the company Tasisa (Transportes Aéreos Sanitarios Isleños, SA), in Gran Canaria, have requested a partial stoppage of the activity due to serious and/or imminent risk to life and worker health. They have exposed before the General Directorate of Labor that this request is due to the “impediment of being able to eat during their working day”, something that, they point out, “could increase the possibilities of health problems in workers”.
Karlos Pérez, nurse and delegate for Prevention and Secretary of SITES complains about “the fact that it is difficult, denied or has not established a meal schedule for 12 and 24-hour shifts”, something that, as he indicates, “is not only harmful to the health of professionals, which can cause fainting, altered consciousness, anxiety, stress, metabolic changes (hypoglycemia), etc.; It can also cause the patient or bystanders to be the ones who may be injured or harmed in the exercise of their functions.”
The union recalls in a statement that Tasisa is one of the four companies that operate in the Sanitary Transport sector in the Archipelago after the award of the last tender at the end of 2020, being the majority in the sector, so it believes that this situation it could be happening in other areas.
The general secretary of SITES, Iván Amador, points out that “the request to stop the activity is one more indicator of what it means for a public service to be in private hands. This situation demonstrates the lack of control, supervision and drift in which this sector is subjected”.
Although the union organization wants to convey a message of calm to the citizens of the capital of Gran Canaria, “it hopes that the Labor Authority will carry out the necessary steps so that professionals in the sector can carry out their work without risk to their health and safely. ”, he has outlined in the letter.