Factores que influyen en la calificación del origen del Covid-19 como enfermedad laboral en pacientes no pertenecientes al sector salud

Abstract

The crisis caused by the Covid-19 virus has revealed the lack of uniform criteria, especially in the case of workers not belonging to the health sector, for the definition of such illness as occupational or common origin, with which which, the performance of the Disability Qualification Boards in Colombia plays a fundamental role both in the assessment of each case, and in the issuance of medical opinions that can shed light on the techniques and criteria to be taken into account when qualifying the disability. origin of the disease. This allows that for workers outside the health sector, contagion by Covid-19 may eventually be considered a direct occupational disease.