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From the Mayor's Council, initiatives such as 'Your closest neighbor' or 'We bring it to you' have been launched to meet the needs of elderly people who live alone and, through the Council of Oeneg s, the subsidy for these entities has been increased by 150,000 euros to make it easier for them to continue providing their essential work.
The Councilor for Social Services, Oeneg s and the Mayor of the Lorca City Council, Mar a Dolores Chumillas, has taken stock of the management areas that she heads.
Chumillas explained that "the health pandemic caused by Covid-19 has resulted in a social crisis whose impact has resulted in investment from the area of ??social care of the City of Lorca through the council Social Services, Mayor and Oeneg s has been higher than 2.1 million euros since the health crisis began last March, a situation that has caused an increase of 226 percent of the interventions made to people and families with difficulties ".
"The number of interventions started last year from the Primary Care Social Services Center was 5,997, a great increase in social demand that has made the Department of Social Services one of the services essential services of the Lorca City Council during the pandemic whose care has been carried out and continues to be carried out through the protocol of care, technical assessment and application of resources that prioritizes, at all times, the social emergency ".
The mayor has detailed that "the Social Services Center, from the first moment of the start of the pandemic, is reorganized, teleworking is incorporated into its staff, telephone service and request for an appointment.
From the City Council de Lorca staff is reinforced and actions are coordinated with other services such as the Municipal Emergency Service and the Department of Health, all with the firm objective of continuing to serve the citizens of Lorca that before the pandemic required.
an social assistance and, also, the increase in cases derived from the health crisis ".
"It has been possible to manage economic benefits as well as basic necessities such as basic food, hygiene products and medicines, urgently introducing three forms of social care: a Social Triage system through specialized telephone assistance in which a technical assessment and diagnosis of the situation is established, assessing what type of care is the most appropriate to the situation filed and with which 7,253 demands have been attended; a Social Telephone Service system, a formula used when the initial assessment of the situation indicates that there is no urgency for face-to-face care at the Social Services Center, and a face-to-face service system , when the situation requires face-to-face and direct work with the person, this type of care is always carried out by appointment and with all the established health measures that guarantee the safety of both citizens and professionals, system through which 2,286 people have been assisted ".
Chumillas Mart nez has specified that "the care of Accompaniment and Social Inclusion has been maintained, aimed at people who, due to their special difficulties and situation of vulnerability, require the Program of Social Accompaniment; Attention and home visits, 208 During this period, for those cases that the gravity of the situation has required or has been necessary for the determination in the application of the most appropriate resource; Attention to the Unit, with which they have Managed a total of 398 benefit files; Attention to Children in a special situation of vulnerability, in which a total of 124 minors and 1,267 actions to cover basic needs have been under surveillance and / or intervention of food ".
"In addition, the Device for Covid Families has been launched, in permanent coordination with the Health Centers, the 112 Emergency Service and with C ritas Lorca, with which coverage has been provided, to date , of basic needs of food, medication and hygiene to 871 people affected by the coronavirus ".
The councilor has indicated that "as for the Mayor's Council, it is the group of people most at risk due to the incidence of the disease, which is why all face-to-face activities have had to be suspended and initiatives have been launched.
care for elderly people who live alone as 'Your closest neighbor' with whom, through daily phone calls, ORA service members, collaborated to contact elderly 'Friendly Calls' in collaboration with Fundaci n Poncemar or the elaboration and distribution of booklets on cognitive stimulation both by email and in paper version ".
"We also launched, in collaboration with the Lorca and Limusa Library Network, the initiative 'We take it to you' with which we have continued to promote reading by bringing backpacks with library books to their own homes, complying with all health safety protocols, to those people who have requested it through the telephone of the Library or 'Cartas Amigas', an activity for exchanging letters between adults and children of the Caixa Proinfancia Program set up with the purpose of promoting intergenerational wealth and the learning of our children with the elderly and vice versa ".
The mayor of Oeneg s has specified that "for the Oeneg s of our municipality it has also been a very complicated year because their work is essential and they have had to pay attention in very difficult circumstances since, In many cases, users are people at risk for this disease.
Furthermore, they are entities whose large part of their economic resources comes from self-financing through their own activities, something that they have not been able to develop normally this year and because of what they have needed extra help to be able to cope with their work, that is why from the City of Lorca we increased the subsidies, with the distribution of 150,000 euros in an equitable way, to those entities that they expressed their needs to us.
" "Also noteworthy is the launch of the 'blue vests', a garment that was distributed from the Consistory to identify, during confinement, the companions of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder, ASD, whose daily departures are a basic therapeutic need; the adaptation in the Casa de las Oeneg s and the placement of separation screens for the groups to carry out their therapies and purchase food for provide the C ritas Supermarket with basic food and hygiene products and facilitate their acquisition for families who, during the state of alarm and to date, continue to need social support ".
Mar a Dolores Chumillas has highlighted that "the social care provided by the Lorca City Council during the past year 2020 has become an essential service for many citizens who find themselves in very complicated situations not only because of the health pandemic but also due to the social crisis that has resulted from it, therefore, this government team has worked and will continue working to offer all possible help and reduce its effects.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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