In a rarely seen decision, Rosario’s labor justice ordered compensation with 19 million pesos to the widow of a health worker who died of coronavirus. The man, identified as Alberto D., 60, died while working in a critical area of Covid from a polyclinic in Rosario.
As published by the newspaper The capital, the woman achieved a agreement conciliation with the Work Risk Insurer to receive that amount for the death of her husband, which took place in August 2020. Alberto suffered from an acute respiratory pathology after working in the maintenance of oxygen tubes in the rooms for patients with Covid.
“He passed away for respiratory insufficiency after contracting Covid ”, affirmed the woman’s attorney, Francisco Grand, in charge of presenting the lawsuit in the Labor Court No. 9. He also assured that his case is the first “of these characteristics to file a lawsuit.”
In outlining the reasons outlined by the Justice, Grand explained that the Central Medical Commission recognized death due to occupational disease because “in the cases of health workers, it will be considered that The Covid-19 disease, produced by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, is directly and immediately causally related to the work carried out.”
Given this precedent, the attorney stressed that those cases similar or equal to that of his client or those of people with disabling sequelae after contracting coronavirus in work environments can initiate this type of claims.
During the first wave of Covid in the country, the one that began in 2020, almost 400 workers lost their lives due to this disease. Now, in the third wave that affects the country, the number of total deaths reported daily fell sharply, due to the advancement of vaccination.
Yesterday another 182 people died and 129,709 were reported with coronavirus in Argentina, which adds up to 118,809 deaths officially registered at the national level and 7,576,335 those infected since the start of the pandemic.
The Ministry of Health indicated that there are 2,470 hospitalized with coronavirus in units of intensive care, with a percentage of occupancy of adult beds in the public and private sectors, for all pathologies, of 47.1% in the country and 46.1% in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires.
According to the Public Vaccination Monitor, the total of those inoculated amounts to 83,781,920, of which 39,171,403 received one dose, 34,275,752 both, 2,976,465 one additional and 7,358,300 one booster, while the vaccines distributed to the jurisdictions reach 94,707,430 and those donated to 5,083,000.