Swine Flu: Work licenses for pregnant women extended

The pregnant women who are employed at the Buenos Aires public sector will be benefited with one more week of license, on having been considered to be one of the principal high-risk groups for the H1N1 Swine Flu, announced today by the departments of Health and Work of the province.

The special permissions to stay away from the labor will remain until next August 7.

Also, they informed that the continuity of this extraordinary benefit will depend on the evolution of the illness.

Spokesmen of the Buenos Aires sanitary portfolio said that it is not a question of an extension of the disposition, but a weekly evaluation on the spread of the virus and its possible incidence in women in gestation period.