This has been announced by the mayor of Emergencies, Isabel Casalduero, who will work in coordination with the areas of Health and Social Services for the assistance, especially of elderly people who may be alone, mothers or fathers who are alone with a sick young child in his charge and people with risk pathologies, physical or mental disabilities and who cannot go out to buy ".
The Councilor for Emergencies, Isabel Casalduero, has reported that "in the next few hours from this department and in coordination with those of Health, Social Services and the Red Cross, a protocol of aid or care for vulnerable people or special needs in the face of the coronavirus crisis. "
The mayor of Emergencies has detailed that "it is an assistance that will be aimed at those people who indicate us from Social Services, but especially they will be, above all, older people who may be alone, mothers or fathers who are alone with a sick young child in their charge and that they cannot leave alone, also people with risk pathologies and who cannot go out to buy, or physically or mentally disabled who have no one to take care of them. "
Isabel Casalduero has also referred to scholarship students with the service that canteen, which, although there are no schools, are beneficiaries of this service, so two telephones will be enabled, attended by Social Services personnel, 968 470077 and 968 470830 and which will start up this afternoon or tomorrow morning.
On the other hand, the Councilor for Emergencies has taken stock of the actions carried out by the Emergency Services and Civil Protection in recent days and which, above all, she has said, "have consisted in the preparation of material specially required by the health services , as masks for patients. In addition to an important task of information for the general population, and I want to congratulate the people who have been involved in that, through infographics in various languages, posters that have been placed in establishments and shops with the measures to be followed, and also through a vehicle with a public address system in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, with the message recorded by Lorca's own imam ".
Casalduero stressed that "there has been an attempt to have a continuous presence on social networks, both reporting and denying false information and hoaxes, and attention has also been paid to non-urgent health services with SUAP and UME ambulances."
The councilor recalled that "on the same Thursday, the Territorial Plan for Civil Protection of Lorca was activated, in which all municipal services were activated to act in the event of any incident caused by the Coronavirus crisis. In addition, the Monitoring and Coordination, chaired by the mayor, who called all the services he considered appropriate, and which were Social Services, Emergencies and Civil Protection, Local Police and a leading role for the Department of Health and Personnel and the Occupational Risk service for measures to be followed by workers ".
New Telegram channel of the Municipal Emergency Service
On the other hand, he explained that "as of today a new communication channel is already in place so that citizens can be informed of everything that happens in terms of Emergencies, thanks to the new Telegram channel that has been enabled and will provide updated information on this emergency. "
The mayor of Emergencies has detailed that "the new channel is called 112 Lorca and to which anyone who wants to be able to be informed at the moment will be able to join. A means that will come to complete those that we already have running".
Lastly, Isabel Casalduero, mayor of Obras, stressed that "once they got in touch with the Ministry of Public Works, the works being carried out in our municipality continue their course, although they told us that they would continue to pay close attention to the indications of the competent authorities at this time, which is the State. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca