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Mayor Diego José Mateos highlights, among others, the free information phone number 900 10 79 09 enabled by Social Services, the reinforcement of telephone assistance to users of the CAVI or the cabinet of psychological support and emotional management for service workers essential.

The Mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, has taken stock of the measures implemented by the City Council in recent days, coinciding with the third week of confinement decreed by the state of alarm caused by the coronavirus health crisis and among the that several of social significance stand out.

The Mayor of Lorca has indicated that "from the first moment, from the City Council we got down to work to take measures in various areas, from an economic point of view, aware of the repercussion that this situation is having and will have among our businessmen and merchants, but also social, aware that this crisis is causing an emergency among the most vulnerable groups when it comes to accessing basic services. "

Diego José Mateos recalled that the solidarity account is still running through which the City Council is channeling and coordinating all the donations and grants that collectives, associations, individuals and companies are sending us, a money that will take stock in the next few days and that is already being used for all those needs that are emerging, such as the purchase of protection material for our toilets.

Mateos has referred to the restructuring carried out by the department of Oenegés, Mayor and Social Services due to the saturation caused by the health crisis caused by the coronavirus, a restructuring has been carried out in this municipal service with the aim of being able meet the large number of demands generated.

And with the aim of centralizing the calls received in recent weeks, we have set up a free information telephone number 900 10 79 09, through which our neighbors will be attended by municipal workers who will collect the information provided and carry out previous studies of each family situation to offer the most appropriate personalized attention. "

From Social Services, whose activity in the four centers it manages has been concentrated in the dependencies of the Primary Care Center, coverage is being given to basic needs and cases of school canteen scholarships, also distributing food in coordination with the Red Cross and Caritas, entities with which we are in daily contact by telephone. "

Also with the aim of "shortening distances" between users of the municipality's nursing homes and their families, from the Municipal Council, through the departments of Health and New Technologies, 25 tablets have been delivered to the people's homes older to promote the communication of users with their families since many of them have been without their loved ones for nearly a month due to the suspension of visits to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. "These are 10 tablets purchased by the Consistory and 15 donated by Media Markt Lorca in collaboration with the Parque Almenara Shopping Center.

From the social point of view, another issue that we could not leave aside, and much less during this situation of confinement, is the assistance to the users of the Care Center for Victims of Gender Violence (CAVI) that, after to be temporarily suspended the attendance in person to the users of the network due to the decree of the state of alarm, this is not only maintained by telephone, but is reinforced.

In addition, regarding the Reception House for Women Victims of Gender Violence, it has been agreed that the educational assistants carry out a telephone monitoring of the status of the users. "

"To continue helping all the professionals who face the Covid-19 on a daily basis, with whom we are also collaborating with the delivery of medical equipment with which to protect themselves, it has been launched from the Department of Emergencies and Protection Civil we have launched a psychological support and emotional management service, to which essential service workers who are fighting against the coronavirus and carry out their task or reside in Lorca will be able to access online and be attended by five psychologists from different specialties coordinated by a specialist in crisis and emergency situations ".

The First mayor recalled that "those interested may request this service on the web www.emergencias.lorca.es through a simple application form and, once sent, a psychologist will contact to specify the schedule and route Communication".

"From the City Council we have also wanted to help transporters and truckers in these hard times, a group that continues to work tirelessly to ensure that we can continue to find essential products every day in shops and establishments. That is why the facilities have been enabled of the 'Francisco Artés Carrasco' football stadium for a rest area, which is operational as early as this Friday and which will meet the basic needs of cleanliness, hygiene and food for truckers and carriers that pass through Lorca. "

Mateos Molina explained that it is "a proposal from the United Left that we soon made our own as we consider it to be suitable for various reasons, due to the location of these facilities, very close to the A7 motorway and the large parking lot available to it truck parking. "

Also within the social sphere, we have launched an initiative through the Department of Social Services so that the companions of people with functional diversity can go outside during the time of the state of alarm, without fear that no one can Recriminate them for this action.

This is a blue bib that family members of children with autism and other behavioral dysfunctions will wear during their therapeutic walks.

Since it must be remembered that they do not go out on the street on a whim but because these people need it, and that they are allowed outings in Royal Decree 463/2020 of March 14 in its article 7.1 g that authorizes the movement of people by the routes or spaces for public use due to force majeure or situations of need, and of course from the City Council we wanted to be sensitive with this matter.

And a fundamental task is the one that is being carried out for the disinfection of streets and common areas through the municipal cleaning company Limusa, with the collaboration of farmers and ranchers in the municipality, also with the workers of the Parks and Gardens service , Emergency and Protection personnel.

Some works to which the forest brigades of the Autonomous Community have joined this Friday to disinfect common spaces in the urban area of ​​the city, with a device made up of 125 personnel, as well as 16 trucks with a capacity of 4,000 liters, 5 vehicles quick intervention 800 liters and 5 motor pumps with capacity for 400 liters.

Finally, the First mayor has reiterated that "we will be at the side of all those Lorca and Lorca who need it most, as well as all those groups that require masks or gowns for the performance of their daily work", and has insisted that "This situation that we are facing will help us to be a stronger and more united society."

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca