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The Councillor for Health, Antonia López, stressed that such measures are made every year to coincide with the summer holidays, Easter and Christmas.
In parallel, the campaign makes prevention of Legionella in these centers.
The Councillor for Health of the City of Lorca, Antonio Lopez, has reported that, as usual, the Consistory Lorca undertake during the last week of August and September the first work of decontamination, pest control and disinfection of the 34 public colleges and concluded the municipality, while in parallel they performed the tasks of prevention of legionellosis, in order to have all health guarantees for when students return to school on the 10th of next month.
Lopez stressed that "this is a silent work that the Consistory held every year to coincide with the summer holidays, Easter and Christmas, so that at no time endanger the health of people and is causing discomfort or disturbance in the functioning of schools. "
The mayor explained that the work executed by the City contractor for pest control, which performs work throughout the year in parks and gardens, the 39 local social or neighborhood associations, the 23 physicians' offices, to municipal nursery, the network of municipal shelters and other agencies managed by the City.
Antonia Lopez that "it is important that people know of this municipal effort, because ultimately it is they who, with their taxes fund these programs to ensure the safety of the city."
Species control objects vector control are rodents (rats, mice ...), insects (cockroaches, mosquitoes, fleas ...), other arthropods (ticks, mites ...), pigeons and pathogenic organisms under certain conditions may pose a risk public health and / or economic loss or damage public property and quality of life in the city in general, or for buildings, offices or services in particular.
It should be noted that this service extends throughout the year the entire municipality of Lorca, also considering a special form watercourses and protection belt, solar-dumps and subsoil of the municipality, which includes a sewage 320,000 meters long, 6,125 manholes, approximately 1,000 scuppers and 2,000 residential connections.
Also perform the work of disinfection and pest control to 2,500 manholes lighting network, and 1,000 manholes Network traffic light.
The annual program includes pigeon control works with eight points capture town and villages, as well as visual inspections and study of each facility on an ongoing basis, performing periodic pest control treatment, desratonización and decontamination, according to the degree of existing infestation .
In addition, care is provided at any time of year citizen complaints or claims regarding the emergence of urban pests aforementioned physical spaces.
Similarly, attention is related incidents detected pests in homes of families without financial resources or other social problems that have the mandatory municipal report thereon and / or those incidents by technical report can constitute a community health problem in either the public or private sphere.
LEGIONELLA PREVENTION IN SCHOOLS
In addition, the council has reported that deposits and sanitary water networks of colleges are considered less likely facilities proliferation and spread of Legionella according to Royal Decree 865/2003, of July 4, by establishing the hygienic criteria for the prevention and control of legionellosis.
However, from the point of view of prevention, to all facilities that use water in their operation, producing aerosol and they are located in open areas and public use, and may be susceptible to become foci of spread of the disease, is They should apply the control and maintenance tasks covered by this legislation, mandatory.
In this sense the city of Lorca has hired a company to maintain such sanitary toilet facilities in schools is an analysis, annual cleaning and disinfection, which will take place before the school year, coinciding with the control Pest.
The sampling for legionella pneumophila analysis will be made within 15 days of making the cleaning and disinfection of the plant.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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