On January 27, the new mechanism was activated for patients with coronavirus to process their certification and, a week later, there were 6,600 requests, reported this Thursday the president of the Social Security Bank (BPS), Alfredo Cabrera.
Of that total, 85% of the applicants were entitled to the subsidy, added the hierarchthrough his Twitter account.
The service became available last thursday, for workers who are studying covid-19 and do not have medical certification. You can request it online on the Gub.uy platform. They must have a positive test for the disease in the last 14 days of the procedure, and a Uruguayan identity card.
They will be confirmed by the database of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) and then passed to the BPS so that the certification is tacitly provided. It can be accessed through the following link: certificate.coronavirus.gub.uy.
Once the subsidy has been granted, the follow-up, entering with your personal BPS user, within the “My information” tab.
In the event that the health provider had already entered the medical certification, it is not necessary to carry out this procedure.
The measure is temporary, valid for 30 days, and is “a new path” of certification that is added to the traditional medical certification. The idea arose due to the complications caused by the growth in coronavirus cases in recent weeks, which have delayed attention to workers who require their medical certificates, said Labor Minister Pablo Mieres.
Cabrera explained at a press conference last Thursday that this solution is “a new path” of certification that is added to the traditional one, medical certification. “This communication to the bank will arrive with the person’s vaccination status, and we will know how many days of leave they are entitled to,” Cabrera explained.
The number of claims for sickness benefit grew in January compared to December. On the other hand, from November to December the increase in orders of this type related to the coronavirus grew by 35%, according to the president of the BPS.
