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The Department of Health last year gave a dozen classroom courses, and has already offered the first three of this year, with the following that of horticultural products and retail on 23 and 24 February.

Councilman of Health of the City of Lorca, Antonia Lopez, has reported that 60% of the 418 students who took in 2014 during food handler with the municipal area did online, thanks to the service launched a year ago .

Lopez expressed his satisfaction with the good reception given to this initiative allows Lorca perform from home and at any time the course work required for catering companies or prepared foods, "shows that we have covered a need for the people who want to work in the hospitality industry. "

Specifically, were 247 people who have completed their training through internet to work in the catering sector, while only 57 chose to study this specialty in person four courses taken for this purpose.

In addition, there have been six classroom courses in the specialties that still can not be made through the web, such as retail and horticultural trade, with 70 participants;

bakery, pastry, cakes and pastries with 30 students and carnage, with 30 people.

In this regard, the council has explained that he will face courses conducted in fact 23 and February 24 will take one for the activities of horticultural products and retail trade, and in mid-January, made one of catering.

The mayor has stated that "the course over the Internet, launched in collaboration with the Department of Information Society, comprises three parts: reading the agenda, the consultation document the course library and a questionnaire of 30 questions with three possible answers to choose one, which will be sent by tutors once read the other two parts. So students who pass the course will receive a diploma certifying the completion of this course of six hours by the Department of Health, which is authorized as a partner of the Ministry of Health of the Autonomous Community to teach these courses. "

The issues that are disclosed to students are: legislation, nutrition, food contamination, preservation methods thereof, foodborne diseases such as poisoning and bacterial infections, viral foodborne diseases and other caused by fungi or parasites as well as preventive measures to be taken along with good health and hygiene practices.

The course tutors, who are the municipal veterinarians, attend to any questions from students via email or phone.

Enrollment in this course will be held in the same way that had been made with classroom courses, ie paying the fee in the register the City or Municipal Service Offices of districts and then formalizing enrollment with a photocopy of ID or NIE and the request pursuant to the Department of Health.

This online course is in addition to the 18 free training courses on new technologies that the Department of Information Society Hall offers on the portal www.formacion.lorca.es, taking a step in the utilization of technological tools facilitate training Lorca, for example, are working or living in the districts.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca