The full of Congress of the republicin its first extraordinary session of the 2022-2023 legislature, insistently approved a law that had been observed by the Government to allow for the one-time transfer of CAS-COVID personnel to CAS contracts in the case of healthcare personnel from the Health sector.
With a vote of 105 legislators in favor, two against and zero abstentions, the autograph of the law that was previously exempted from the debate in the Budget Commission was approved in the first vote and exonerated in the second.
The norm had been approved during the session of June 30 but was observed by the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo, on July 27.
The rule is applicable to assistance and administrative personnel with a CAS-COVID contract, who work in the Ministry of Health, its public bodies, regional governments, health services of the Armed Forces, health services of the National Police of Peru and the Social Health Insurance ( IsSalud).
During the debate this Saturday, the person in charge of raising the insistence was the vice president of the Budget Commission, Wilson Quispe Mamani (Free Peru), who stressed that there are still areas that require extraordinary work by personnel from the Health sector.
For this reason, he pointed out that it is necessary to ensure the provision of services to the personnel hired by Legislative Decree 1057, adding that “it would be unfair and unnecessary to remove them from public service so that they compete with others who may not have helped to overcome the pandemic, especially especially when they have been performing this function for more than two years and there is, at the same time, the need to (have) professionals (like them)”.
Additionally, and after an agreement by the Board of Spokespersons to include it on the plenary agenda, a law was approved to grant supplementary credits to finance expenses associated with the health emergency caused by Covid-19, the economic reactivation and other expenses of regional and local government entities and dictate other measures.
