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The Councillor for Health, Antonia López, stressed that pest prevention is held every year to coincide with the summer holidays, Easter and Christmas.
In parallel campaign legionella prevention is carried out in the centers of the Consistory.
The Councillor for Health of the City of Lorca, Antonio López, has reported that, as usual, the Consistory Lorca undertake during the next few days the work of decontamination, pest control and disinfection of the 37 public and private schools in the municipality, while in parallel tasks prevention of legionellosis, place in order to have all the health requirements for when students return to school next month.
Lopez said "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 or cause discomfort or disturbance in the functioning of schools. "
The mayor explained that the work runs the company contracted by the City to pest control, performing work throughout the year in parks and gardens, the 39 social or local neighborhood associations, the 23 physician offices, to municipal nursery, the network of municipal shelters and other agencies managed by the City.
Antonia Lopez "It is important that people know of this municipal effort, involving an outlay of 35,695 euros, because ultimately it is they who, with their taxes pay for 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 pathogens;
that under certain conditions may pose a risk to public health and / or economic loss or damage to public property and the quality of life in the town in general, or for buildings, offices or services in particular.
It is emphasized 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 and 2,000 residential connections scuppers.
The work of disinfection, insect and rodent control to 2,500 manholes of the mains are also performed, and 1,000 manholes made from Red traffic light.
The annual program includes works by eight pigeon control capture points in town and districts as Doña Inés, Zarcilla or La Torrecilla and visual inspections of each facility and study continuously, performing periodic rodent control treatment, desratonización and decontamination, according to the degree of infestation.
In addition, attendance at all seasons of citizen complaints or claims regarding the emergence of urban pests in physical spaces above is performed.
Similarly, the attention of the implications associated with pests is detected in homes of families without financial resources or other social problems that have the mandatory municipal report thereon and / or by those incidents that technical report can constitute a community health problem either in the public and private sectors.
LEGIONELLA PREVENTION IN SCHOOLS
Meanwhile, the council has reported that deposits and sanitary water networks of schools are considered less likely to facilities proliferation and spread of Legionella 865/2003 by Royal Decree of 4 July, by fixing health and hygiene for the prevention and control of legionellosis criteria.
However, from the point of view of prevention, to all facilities that use water in their operation, producing aerosol and are located in open and public use areas, and can be susceptible to becoming hotbeds of disease spread is they apply their checks and maintenance imposed by this legislation, mandatory.
In this regard, the City of Lorca has hired a company for 56,800 euros, for the health maintenance of the toilet facilities in schools that analysis, annual cleaning and disinfection, which will take place before the school year is done coincide with pest control.
The sampling for legionella pneumophila analysis will be performed within 15 days of making the cleaning and disinfection of the plant.
The maintenance program for the prevention and control of legiolenosis also extends to the three tourist lodges of the municipality and 80 ornamental fountains in the city and districts, where risk-based controls free chlorine, pH and temperature are performed daily or weekly, quarterly or annual cleanings and disinfections and laboratory tests once or twice a year.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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