Basque Health ElServicio denied disability as a nurse approved by the oppositions to consider "unfit" to perform the work
'me laugh the employment of the disabled '. Itziar Gomez is 32, is a nurse and was presented as so many other colleagues at the Public Employment Offer Osakidetza called by a couple of years with the "hope" to get a place to leave his job as operator of the remote alarm and dedicated service what he really likes. He did it within the quota for the disabled. The youngster has a handicap of 77.5% as a result of a spinal tumor that was diagnosed when she was second in career.
disease has left her wheelchair, but has not removed the "illusion" of working in the profession for which takes "time" in preparation. "That has already been charged Osakidetza" he laments. The girl has sued the Basque Health Service for "discrimination" by denying the square on the grounds that "not suitable" for the nursing post despite having passed the bar exam. "I'm not asking for any preferential treatment. I meet all the requirements and are denying me the chance to work. Much talk of integration work, but at the moment of truth with disabilities continue to be discriminated against "protest.
Itziar Gomez attended the Public Offer of Employment convened in December 2006 bridge to make a living working on his own. After "hours and hours" of study, she passed all the tests and got the square. Of the fifty posts that the Basque Health Service reserved for persons with disabilities in the field of nursing, the young Bilbao was the number 44 of the eighty candidates who appeared at the post.
had entered the largest public company in the Basque Country. "I could not believe" recalls. Meredith had already begun to arrange all the necessary paperwork for the inauguration of the plaza, reports, certificates, medical tests ...- when he received a letter Osakidetza address in which he denied the post to understand that "no was safe, "despite the Occupational Health Medical Hospital Santa Marina, under the Department of Health Basque-certify their ability to work as a nurse.
"It's very frustrating"
The report by the doctor and sent for the girl to the central Osakidetza along with other documents required by the Basque Health Service to give the place qualifies as Itziar Gómez Villa " Safe Limited, a standard terminology to be a disabled person. Days later, she received notification of the Committee on Assessment of Skills Osakidetza in informing him that he can not take possession of the plaza. "I declared unfit without further explanation. I sent a letter expressing my disappointment and demanding an explanation, but was told by phone that did not have to justify their decision, "says" outraged. "
His name appeared in the final lists. "Even I claimed destination. I rang the hospital of Basurto. Moreover, I came to meet with school management to see what the unit could work, "he explains. When Meredith, graduated in nursing from the University of the Basque Country, made an appointment to take possession of the square 'opposition had won cleanly, "the clerk told him he could not do as unfit to appear in the document issued by the Commission Skills Assessment Osakidetza. "It's very frustrating," summarized the young Bilbao.
"I had to have started in Basurto on 12 December. I am aware that a nurse in a wheelchair is not common, but I can do my job perfectly. In Patient Care in outpatient ... That I live alone! "uproar. Itziar is willing to exhaust all possibilities to "recover" its position as the Basurto hospital nurse. "At stake my future career," agrees. The Legal Services of the union of Nursing (SATS) have taken their defense on the ground that Osakidetza "has discriminated against the girl because of her disability."
"My family and my friends are outraged with what is happening to me. I do not understand. It is unfair and I will not stand still, "he announces.
Source: http://www.elcorreodigital.com/alava/20090208/pvasco-espana/despues-hablan-integracion-20090208.html
