Tunisia-Covid-19: UGTT calls government to increase control at the level of private clinics

The Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) called on Wednesday, after a conference of its executive board, for the administration to step up observing at the level of private clinics in charge of patients with COVID-19.

In a statement released, the UGTT called for the imperative to implement the law against offenders who took advantage of the pandemic situation and violated the law.

The UGTT further called for exercising the required measures to provide support to hospitals, regional and university, in the admission of patients and present them with the needed care in the face of a constant increase in the number of patients infected with the virus.

It additionally called on private sector companies to promote masks in satisfactory quantity for the benefit of their employees in order to shield them from the danger of infection by the coronavirus.

The government is also called upon, according to the same source, to publish decrees to compensate vulnerable categories and workers in the private sector as well as those in the tourism sector and other trades affected by the coronavirus pandemic.