There are politicians who fill their mouths with criticism about things that emerge about Quirón and its relationships with certain right-wing governments, but who then, when other scandals are on the table that they could perfectly well act upon, look the other way.
Unfortunately, the Ministries of Health and Labor have disassociated themselves from the complaint we filed against the Quirón group for falsely alerting workers to a possible cancer risk after conducting medical examinations on them. And this, with the sole aim of convincing them to contract additional analytical tests.
Yes, yes. The result of an analysis related to a medical examination of an employee commissioned by his company to Quirón includes a warning that the results could lead one to think that cancer is involved. Do you want to know if you have it or not? Hire the premium analysis but pay separately.
The problem, beyond how unacceptable it is that they use this route to earn more money, is that it is a lie. Analytics do not cast any suspicion that the affected person has cancer.
It is something that a user denounced to us months ago and that caused us to undertake an investigation for which we ended up receiving a multitude of similar cases.
Quirón illicitly uses the personal data of the workers of the companies that hire them for medical examinations to send them advertising for their services without any prior consent from those workers, but also to deceive or confuse them by scaring them and instilling fear in them, so that it is easier to convince them to pay the surcharge for those other services.
We reported it to Data Protection and have been waiting a long time for the agency to resolve the file it has open on the matter. But we also reported it to the Ministry of Health of Mónica García and to the Ministry of Labor of Vice President Yolanda Díaz. They haven't told us what they've done. They haven't told us if they've done anything about these serious practices by Quirón. They haven't even told us if, at a minimum, they've told Quirón to stop doing what it's doing, regardless of whether they consider it illegal or not, regardless of whether they have the capacity or not to impose a sanction.
The truth is that the first of the cases we were handling was unequivocally clear regarding the irregularity that was being committed. The company sent the user, a member of FACUA, an email in which a red alert signal appeared with the message: "Your analytics show alterations."
And in a later section, under the name "Tests recommended by our healthcare team", at first glance words like "cancer" or "type 2 diabetes" were observed.
Subsequently, it was indicated that an extension of the analytics could be contracted for the modest price of 29.45 euros. Go figure how many workers will have paid that extra fee to Quirón for the fear they instilled in them. A fear based on absolutely nothing.