The CEOE Foundation and the CEIM employers' association have committed this Monday to amplify the actions of the Community of Madrid to contain and fight against COVID-19, within an unprecedented project called Plan Sumamos. S + E – Health plus Economy.
In a ceremony held at the headquarters of the Community of Madrid, the president of the CEOE Foundation, Fátima Báñez; the president of CEIM, Miguel Garrido; and the Madrid Health Minister, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, have signed a pioneering action protocol for this purpose, with the participation of the CEOE president, Antonio Garamendi, and the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
The plan, which has a national vocation and to which more autonomous communities are expected to be incorporated from now on, includes companies carrying out massive tests in companies, as well as mobile and fixed points, in coordination with the Directorate. General of Public Health of the Community of Madrid.
The objective is to set up up to 30 temporary mass testing centers throughout the year that the project is scheduled to last, of which up to 10 would be installed before Christmas.
In this way, the companies have proposed to triple the testing capacity of the Community of Madrid and, for this, carry out two million tests per month. In addition, the business sector will multiply, within the framework of this public-private collaboration initiative, the number of trackers available.
On the other hand, it is planned to carry out an awareness campaign among Madrid companies and their workers to extend the download of the Radar Covid application.
In this sense, thanks to the direct communication channel of the companies with the workers, there is a potential capacity to get one out of every two Madrid residents to download the application.
The plan is supported by a Technical Office for the Project, made up of technical staff from the Madrid Regional Ministry of Health, Fundación CEOE and CEIM.
Finally, the plan is completed with two initiatives to accelerate the labor insertion of people at risk of exclusion, together with Cáritas, and a second that we call Sustainable Digitization and that is already underway, to recycle electronic equipment from companies, to transfer them to those who need it most through NGOs, to reduce the digital divide.
During the presentation of the plan, the president of CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, stressed that this is "an important day" because, among other things, this plan "is an example that together we make a country."
In this sense, he pointed out that companies can join forces if the Administrations are "aware" of this possibility, for which he thanked the Community of Madrid for this collaboration.
For his part, the president of CEIM, Miguel Garrido, has highlighted the exemplary work, responsibility and solidarity, that companies have had during the pandemic, as well as the predisposition, support and closeness received from the Community of Madrid , which has made contagion control compatible with economic reactivation. "Health, economy, society, companies, government … are terms, not only compatible, but complementary to overcome, together, adding, the dramatic situation that the pandemic has caused us," added the president of CEIM.