This benefit will allow more than 40 thousand potential caregivers in the O’Higgins region to obtain preferential care in entities such as Banco Estado, Fonasa, Chile Atiende, among others.
The Preferential Care Credential was launched for caregivers in the O’Higgins region, instance that seeks to provide greater facilities and access when carrying out procedures in public entitiesincluding attention and preferential queuing for all who present their caregiver credential.
This is an important initiative developed by the Regional Technical Committee for Preferential Care for Caregivers, who, through a collaboration agreement, generated actions together with the Ministry of Social Development and Family, to review and co-design the preferential care models. from institutions such as Fonasa, Civil Registry, Dicrep, Senadis, Serviu, Banco Estado, Chile Atiende, Senama, Correos de Chile and the municipal offices of the Social Registry of Households.
The Seremi of Social Development and Family, Nayadeth Ahumada, said that “last year we began work to generate preferential attention to caregivers, which has been able to give us important results in terms of updating the protocols of preferential attention. That is why today we have launched this credential that seeks to benefit more than 40 thousand potential caregivers in this region.”
The new credential can be used once the caregiver registers in the Care complement of the Social Registry of Households (RSH), whose objective is to identify caregivers to recognize and make visible the work carried out mostly by women, allowing, In addition, lay the foundations for the implementation of the National Support and Care System “Chile Cuida”.
In this regard, the regional deputy manager of Banco Estado, Carlos Martin Navarrete, pointed out that “as Banco Estado we have been working for about a year, and we made an agreement with the Ministry of Social Development and Family for preferential attention to caregivers, which “It means giving better preferential attention to our bank users, so we are working hard on it.”
Regarding the implementation of this credential for preferential care, Edelmira García, a caregiver, expressed that “I think it is wonderful, a good idea that President Boric made. We are step by step, achieving this goal of making caregivers visible. I go to Banco Estado, to Chile Atiende and they serve me ‘altiro’, because I show my credential. We caregivers are always in a hurry, because we have to take care of our patients, so to speak.”
RSH Care Module
The Care Module of the Social Household Registry is a complement, where people can update information related to the care of their home. That is, if there is a person who performs care tasks or if there is a person who requires them. From this complement, caregivers will be able to obtain the preferential care credential, since Currently there are 5,497 people who are already validated as caregivers in the Social Household Registry in the O’Higgins region.
María Eugenia Ahumada, regional coordinator of the Yo Cuido association, highlighted that “it is a public policy that we have been promoting and wanting to make come true for five or six years. We have been behind this being established, so we call on all caregivers, whether men or women, to register in the Social Registry of Households so that they can access this caregiver credential.”
To carry out this procedure you must enter www.resgitrosocial.gob.cl with a unique password or go to the office of the Regional Ministerial Secretariat of Social Development and Family, located at Almarza N° 399, Rancagua.
