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Gloria Martín: "Mateos must press for the regional executive to accept Moncloa's offer and send the municipality the necessary number of trackers to ensure adequate monitoring of the epidemiological situation and that in the health centers of La Viña and San Diego, at the red level since last Monday, all its users will be served again " The councilor for Izquierda Unida-Verdes, Gloria Martín, has positively valued the decision of the central government of the PSOE and United We Can to mobilize two thousand members of the armed forces to carry out tracking tasks, and which have already been made available to the autonomies. For this reason, Martín has demanded that the mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos (PSOE), demand that the regional government of Fernando López Miras (PP) accept Moncloa's offer and send the municipality the necessary number of trackers to guarantee "a adequate monitoring of the epidemiological situation "and" release "the health centers of La Viña and San Diego, in the red level since last Monday. This implies that the medical and nursing staff of two of the most important primary centers in the city only attend emergencies and patients with covid-19, so the rest of the users are forced to postpone the care they need or go to the Emergency service of the Rafael Méndez regional hospital, with the consequent risk of collapse. "We want the doctors and nursing staff of San Diego and La Viña to continue treating all their patients," said Martín, who insisted that the health crisis derived from the coronavirus cannot be an excuse to "dismantle" the services of Primary Care, "when there are means guaranteed by the central government to carry out tracking tasks." In this regard, the IU-Verdes councilor regretted that only 70 of the 265 trackers operating in the Murcia Region are attached to the Epidemiology Service.

The other 195 are health center personnel, "who cannot normally attend to their normal functions because they are forced to spend their working hours calling infected patients to check that they are undergoing quarantine." Martín criticized the "appearance of normality" that Mateos and López Miras intend to give to the situation that is being experienced in Lorca while "we open the news at the national level because the ICU of our hospital is already at maximum capacity". For this reason, the IU-Verdes councilor insisted that the City Council's involvement must go "beyond distributing a few simple brochures" and that the mayor's obligation is to "forcefully demand all the necessary means to stop the expansion of the coronavirus in the town". Since the first outbreak last July, Lorca continues to be one of the critical points for covid-19 in the Region of Murcia with a gradual increase in the contagion curve, due, in part, to waiting for PCR tests and to obtain its result, something that the IU-Verdes councilors have already denounced on several occasions.

Another fundamental aspect is the lack of local police force "who are necessary to guarantee compliance with the capacity in different establishments and to avoid the celebration of parties and meetings of various kinds that do not comply with health orders."

Source: IU-verdes Lorca