Pablo Sigal
02/12/2021 12:04
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/12/2021 12:04
"We cannot get them to go en masse."
Impotence circulates, growing, in the Ministry of Education of the City.
On February 17,
face-
to-
face classes begin
in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and so far only 11,270 teachers have registered for testing, out of a total of 110,000 who will begin to attend schools as of next Wednesday.
This is
less than 6 percent.
"There are no legal tools to force a supposedly healthy person to undergo a test," they say from the Ministry, who seems
tied hand and foot
to move forward with this plan.
"The resources for testing are there, but the teachers don't come, or at least they don't come in the way we expected."
Given the
lack of vaccines
so that teachers can start immunized classes, the official idea is that they can be tested every 15 days.
Knowing if a teacher has coronavirus is key so that from next week, when they begin to live with students in classrooms, the possibility of eventual chains of contagion is reduced.
Soledad Acuña's offices
do not link the problem with union resistance
: “When the unions were announced that we were going to set up three testing centers, they all liked it, because it is something that favors them.
They may be waiting to go last minute. "
Sergio Romero, at the head of UDA, told
Clarín
: “The swab is voluntary.
And I think it must be promoted and disseminated more, the three centers that were used for this purpose are a good initiative ”.
On the side of UTE, the main teaching union of the City, there was no response to the query why the response to the call is proving so "timid."
And Ademys called for a
three-day strike to
demand better sanitary conditions.
Teachers can go by car and do not have to get out to take the test.
Photo: EFE
At this point, the City is almost begging the teachers to attend: “Yesterday
we sent them the communication again
so they can be tested.
First we announced it, then we sent them a letter and sms, and yesterday we got one more email to reinforce.
They do not take more than
5 or 10 minutes
, they go with a previous shift, they do not have to wait.
Those who go by car do not get out of the car;
those who are walking do not queue.
They enter, they are tested and they leave
.
And in less than 12 hours they have the result ”.
The latest letter sent to teachers says: “We are just days away from the
most challenging
start of school
of all
.
We have been working together for many months so that this reunion with the students in schools is possible, and for the classrooms to be well-cared spaces it is essential that you take the Covid-19 test before February 17.
To request a shift, you can go to https://t.co/1vz6oZMf4D?amp=1.
We go back to the classrooms.
Let's do it responsibly ”.
On the other hand, in the meeting on Thursday that the City held with the mixed commission for monitoring the protocol, "
the unions promised
to disseminate and promote the tests," they affirmed after the meeting.
There are
three sites enabled
for teachers to carry out the tests: in the Rural, in the Usina del Arte and in Flores, in the Communal Headquarters 7 Rivadavia avenue at 7200. The swabs also seek to reach all non-teaching personnel, who includes the assistants, secretaries and secretaries, porters and porters, security, caretaker and maintenance, among others.
The tests were even part of a judicial claim that was promoted by the Single Union of Workers of the City of Buenos Aires (Sutecba) and that led Judge Roberto Gallardo to summon the Buenos Aires Ministers of Health and Education to a hearing.
Although the action then remained abstract.
From the City they add: “Until now,
the 15 people who tested positive were asymptomatic
, and we detected them thanks to this system.
Testing is the best way to detect people who are spreading the virus
without realizing it.
The truth is a shame because there is the ability to test everyone before starting, but they have to take turns and go ”.
The reality, definitely, is far from the forecast.
When the operation was launched last Saturday, there was some optimism.
Gabriel Battistella, Undersecretary of Primary, Ambulatory and Community Care, said: "We estimate that
between 80,000 and 90,000 people
could be approaching the three testing centers in the coming days."
At the same time, he clarified one of the Achilles heels of the initiative: testing is not mandatory.
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