The Government of the Balearic Islands and CAEB join the ‘Sumamos Plan. Health+Economy’ (in English, We Combine Health+Economy Plan) of the CEOE Foundation

The president of the CEOE Foundation, Fátima Báñez (left); the president of the Confederation of Business Associations of the Balearic Islands (CAEB), Carmen Planas (centre); and the councillor for Health and Consumer Affairs of the Government of the Balearic Islands, Patricia Gómez (right), signing the agreement.

– CAEB has offered the capabilities of companies to speed up ending the health crisis and starting the economic and social recovery as soon as possible.

The President of the CEOE Foundation, Fátima Báñez, the Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs of the Government of the Balearic Islands, Patricia Gómez, and the President of the Confederation of Business Associations of the Balearic Islands (CAEB), Carmen Planas, have signed a framework collaboration agreement to combine public and private efforts and jointly develop projects that contribute to controlling the pandemic.

Specifically, once the Sumamos Plan is launched, CAEB, with the support of the CEOE Foundation, will amplify and reinforce the actions of the Balearic Islands’ health authorities, making the tools and resources available to companies.
At present, the main aim to combat the pandemic and restore social and economic normality in the Balearic Islands is to vaccinate the population to achieve 70% immunity.

The president of CAEB stressed that “as the Balearic Islands is the community most affected by the crisis and given the urgent need to ensure the greatest possible success of the tourist season, where the stakes are every high, it is absolutely necessary to ensure that the health authorities have the potential and capacity of companies at their disposal at all times to support and strengthen all their actions.  This joint strategy must be marked by a truly effective public-private partnership”.

CAEB is actively committed to achieving this goal in the Balearic Islands. In this regard, Carmen Planas stressed that “businessmen want to collaborate to the maximum, always acting with commitment and responsibility, as we have offered repeatedly since the pandemic broke out”.

This idea was also shared by the president of the CEOE Foundation, Fátima Báñez, who pointed out “the importance of the ‘Sumamos Plan’ and its five major initiatives: testing, screening and vaccination to reach that 70% immunity rate and, together, be able to make the recovery possible by the summer, but also through the guidance and job placement programme, because employment is the real social policy, and this is coupled with the donation of technology to avoid the digital divide”.

Finally, she insisted on the capacity of companies to contribute to accelerating vaccination by between 20% and 30% “with 113 companies of more than 250 workers and, therefore, with their own prevention services in the Community, and 22 mutual insurance centres with 303 workers in the mutual insurance centres (224 health and 79 administrative centres), which we put at the disposal of the health authorities strictly following the established calendar”.

The Regional Minister of Health closed the event by stressing that “the combination of everyone’s efforts will help us to tackle this complex health situation that has now been going on for a year and a half. The public sector must go hand in hand with the private sector to overcome this crisis. If we all pull in the same direction, we will reach a successful outcome as quickly and safely as possible. Without health, there is no economy. Without a healthy economy, our health also suffers. For the Government of the Balearic Islands, public health comes first, and we have demonstrated this since the beginning of the pandemic”.

The Plan Sumamos. Salud + Economía’ (in English, We Combine Health+Economy Plan)

The CEOE Foundation’s “Sumamos Plan” includes a set of five initiatives through which companies can help, ranging from testing (providing support for mass testing in their workplaces, donating resources, materials, and space); tracking (supporting the mass adoption of the Radar COVID application through communication campaigns to employees, suppliers or customers); communication initiatives; assistance to the most vulnerable groups; and vaccination.

By joining the Sumamos Plan, CAEB, in collaboration with the CEOE Foundation, aims to achieve the much-needed balance between health and the economy in the Balearic Islands, a binomial for which the essential foundations of public-private collaboration between employers and the regional government have been laid today.

– Listen to or download the statement of the president of CAEB, Carmen Planas

– Listen to or download the  statement of the President of the CEOE Foundation, Fátima Báñez

– Listen to or download the  statement of the Health Counsellor of the Balearic Islands, Patricia Gómez

More information about the the Combine Health+Economy Plan