Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Nursing Personnel Convention, 1977 (No. 149) - Uruguay (Ratification: 1980)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee notes the detailed information supplied by the Government in answer to its previous comments.

Article 5 of the Convention. The Committee notes with interest the Government's statement that there is a technical nursing committee which enables nursing personnel to participate in decision-making that concerns them. It asks the Government to continue to supply information on any decisions taken in the context of the above committee or any agreement concerning the conditions of work of nursing personnel.

Article 7. The Committee asks the Government to indicate the measures taken or envisaged to improve the existing provisions of the law on occupational safety and health, so that they are adapted to the particular characteristics of the work of nursing personnel and their working environment. Furthermore, referring to its general observation of 1990, which it repeated in 1994, the Committee asks the Government to indicate the measures taken or envisaged, in consultation with the employers' and workers' organizations concerned, to take account of the particular risk of accidental exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among nursing personnel: for example, working conditions, confidentiality of test results, acknowledgement that the cause of infection is occupational, etc.

Part V of the report form. The Committee notes the statistical information supplied by the Government in its last report. It hopes that the Government will continue to provide such statistics and that it will send data on the number of people leaving the profession. Please also report any difficulties encountered in the practical application of the Convention.