Women with endometriosis, from April, will have the right to justify the absence of work and classes, up to three consecutive days a month, without losing rights, according to a law published this Wednesday in Diário Da República.
The law aims to enhance women’s rights Endometrium Or with AdenomioseBy enhancing your access to health care and creating a system The justified absence To work and classes, change the work code.
“To ensure the right of persons suffering from endometriosis or glandular to a timely diagnosis, as well as access to all supplementary means of diagnosis and treatment and necessary, by the General Directorate of Health, within 90 days and within their skills, rules and technical guidelines that will be implemented in all health facilities”, reading in the diploma.
It determines that it must be included in the rules and guidance, among other things, Symptoms of monitoringThat is, by the family doctor, the available complementary diagnostic tests and means and verification of scientifically health, as well as the recommended follow -up after the diagnosis.
According to the legislation, the rules and guidelines related to the codification of endometrium and the mixing of the glandular, issued by DGS, will be implemented immediately in the national health services units (NHS), and the governmental member responsible for the health field is responsible for human, technical and financial resources for all units to ensure this implementation.
A drug payment system is also created to treat and relieve Symptoms of these diseasesProgstogens or others, described in NHS by a specialist, who will be published in the decree within 30 days.
A woman who suffers from these diseases that result from abnormal growth in the endometrium can maintain their fertility, that is, by preserving their eggs, and NHS is responsible for launching a response to harvesting and storage. It is also covered with the same right to maintain fertility in other NHS diseases that lead to infertility and question the possibility of parents’ future projects.
To ensure this right, a health wallet must guarantee human, technical and financial resources so that NHS units guarantee harvesting and storage responses. With this law, it is added to the labor law that workers and students suffer from.Foolish Disability caused by endometriosis during the menstrual period is entitled to lack work, without losing any right, including rewards, up to three consecutive days per month of work. “
Under the law, the prescription that testifies to this position should be delivered to the employer or the educational institution and constitutes evidence of the justification of the shortage, without the need for monthly renewal.
The law enters into force after 30 days on Thursday, with the exception of articles related to “paying treatments” and “preserving fertility”, which enter into force with the state budget after the publication of this law.
A study issued in 2023 estimated that more than 40 % of women with endometriosis in Portugal It took more than ten years to diagnose Because of the reduction in the value of the symptoms, which prevents the disease from controlling the disease. Data is produced by achieving a procedure in 2022 by the Portuguese Association of Gynecology, which indicates the presence of a country of about 350,000 women with pathology, one in 10 out of 10 fertile era, most of them between 30 and 35 years old. Pain disabling is the main appearance of symptoms, but it may also be the appearance of pelvic blocks or difficulty pregnancy.
