Acaip reports to the Labor Inspectorate the lack of protective equipment in the Tahíche prison in the face of Covid-19

It states that the prison management is not adopting "the general provisions that other centers have provided in terms of prevention."

April 29 2020 (19:25 WEST)
Acaip reports to the Labor Inspectorate the lack of protective equipment in the Tahíche prison in the face of Covid-19
Acaip reports to the Labor Inspectorate the lack of protective equipment in the Tahíche prison in the face of Covid-19

The Acaip prison officers' union has filed a complaint with the Labor Inspectorate in Lanzarote regarding the situation experienced by the staff at the Tahíche prison, as it maintains that the management has not adopted "the general provisions that other centers have provided in terms of prevention."

Specifically, Acaip refers to the delivery of specific masks to prevent contagion with probable cases in the Nursing and Admissions modules, measuring the body temperature of the staff, as well as cleaning and disinfection with disinfectant mats at the entrance of the center and organizing specific disinfection brigades composed of inmates. In addition, it questions the delivery of a mask "that should last thirty-eight hours of almost continuous work, despite being recommended to be renewed after four hours of use."

In a statement, the union also denounces the "shortage of protective equipment" in the rest of the prisons in the Canary Islands, both for officials and for prisoners. In this regard, it points out that the fact that no cases have been detected among inmates "is due to the moderate level of contagion suffered by the islands and the monitoring by workers and inmates of the prevention protocol," which, among other things, involves having all new people entering prison in a mandatory quarantine of 14 days, with access to the patio for two hours a day. As an example, Acaip points out that in the Salto del Negro prison there are 38 inmates who are quarantined in the Admissions module.

 

Two positives in Lanzarote


Regarding officials, among the more than 1,340 workers in all the centers of the Canary Islands, only four infections have occurred, two of them in Lanzarote. And according to the union in a press release, all of them occurred "outside the workplace and without contact with the prison population."

However, Acaip demands that the Ministry of Health and the Government Delegation carry out rapid serological tests to detect the coronavirus on all members of the staff of the Canary Islands prisons.

"To date, only the management of the El Rosario centers in Tenerife and Juan Grande in Gran Canaria make these test tests available to their workers, with the rest of the workers being deprived of carrying out a diagnostic test that would allow us to increase the protection and health of all people incarcerated in the Canary Islands penitentiary centers," the union concludes.

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