The professional associations (AUME, ASFASPRO, UMT) consider that after the urgency of vital interventions, military personnel must carry out their work with adequate rest and protection measures against the risks of the area.

More than a month after the catastrophe caused by the floods (DANA meteorological phenomenon), military personnel continue on the ground striving to carry out actions that allow the affected population to return to normal as soon as possible. Work without pause must be carried out guaranteeing adequate safety conditions for those who perform it.

Both the Minister of Defence and the head of the UME (Military Emergency Unit) have made statements in which they report that the Armed Forces, their women and men, are working 24 hours a day, without rest, and that they will remain in the area throughout the day. as long as necessary. This permanence in the area must be compatible with adequate management of the personnel, rest shifts, working conditions, means of protection appropriate to each case, accommodation and food, in short, it must be compatible with their health, safety and rights.

All this aggravates the concern of the three associations that have requested, two weeks ago, an extraordinary plenary session of COPERFAS to deal with all this, since we are not on a war mission and military personnel cannot be treated as if they were in front of the enemy. It is even more worrying after the latest news of colleagues admitted to hospital centres as a result of injuries and poisoning caused by cleaning garages, which the Minister of Defence herself recognized in the Joint National Security Commission in Congress, hospitalizations resulting from the non-adoption of security protocols specifically.

Since this is more than half of the associations represented in COPERFAS, the Minister of Defence is obliged to call it. Although it seems that the ministry does not have much desire, because after the presentation of the request it has called an ordinary plenary session for next December 17, but without a trace of the extraordinary one on the conditions of the military in the DANA or either, and there are already many months, of another extraordinary plenary session on compensation requested in April by four professional associations.

The problems of military personnel not only seem to not worry the minister, but everything also indicates that she does not want to hear or be talked about.