Qualification of the origin of the disease and biological work accident by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic affects many workers and their families, which makes necessary an origin qualification procedure that responds to clinical aspects of the disease, as well as the legal aspects related to the qualification of origin.

Hence, this article proposes an approach to the problem after identifying many occupations of risk, especially those in the health sector.

Those who work in this last area, have been included as beneficiaries of the direct occupational disease concept without requiring a categorization to access the benefits of the occupational risk general system.

It is also possible to determine the COVID-19 infection because of a biological work accident, being necessary to document a sudden event duly reported to the ARL.

Finally, there are a clearly defined liabilities stated for everybody involved including employers, IPS, EPS, and ARL (respectively: Institutional Health Service Provider, Health Care Provider, and Labor Risk Administration, all for their acronym in Spanish)