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| With 30 professionals and volunteers from the Municipal Emergency Service and the Civil Protection Volunteers Group | The Consistory has invested about 12,000 euros in this initiative that will allow our municipality "to be at the national level at the head of the ratio of tracker per number of inhabitants, by reaching the ratio of one tracker for every 3,000 inhabitants, when the maximum percentage recommended by the World Health Organization is one tracker for every 5,000 inhabitants ". The mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, has visited, this morning, together with the councilors of Emergencies, Health and the Information Society, Isabel Casalduero, José Ángel Ponce and Irene Jódar, the facilities where the Center for Tracking and Monitoring of People Affected by Covid-19 (CECOVID) ". The mayor of Lorca explained that "the City Council has launched, in a week, the Center for Tracking and Monitoring of Affected Persons, for which it has invested about € 12,000, after the offer made to the Ministry of Health and to This has had the support of the Public Health Service of Health Area III.
This center is already working, and we plan that it will reach its maximum operational capacity starting next week.
In addition, we will have the 112 Emergency Coordination Center of Lorca in the same building as the CECOVID will allow fluid contact with other health, security and social services ". Diego José Mateos has specified that "this center constitutes an operational structure for tracking, monitoring and coordinating with other public bodies, which integrates human and technological resources from the Emergency Service and Civil Protection, to locate the contacts of the positive, being able in case of It is necessary to develop follow-up work on these positives.
In addition to having the ability to exchange information, in real time, with the rest of the public services that are intervening in the fight against the pandemic.
" The mayor has insisted that "isolation is the best tool to control this virus, but facing a quarantine can lead to negative emotional situations and need, which lead to non-compliance, therefore the CECOVID offers the most vulnerable cases , the coverage of their basic needs: basic necessities, food and medicines, once their situation has been evaluated by Social Services, in addition to psychological support for those affected who request it. It has 30 people, including professionals from the Municipal Emergency Service and volunteers from the Civil Protection Association, with an academic and professional socio-health and emergency profile, as is the case of nurses, psychologists, social workers, graduates in professional training ( health, social and emergency), technicians in health emergencies, emergency technicians and civil protection, to which we must add that most of these people are 112 command and control operators.
All of them carried out this past weekend the 'I Basic Course on Tracking and Monitoring of those affected by COVID-19' organized by the Emergency Service and Civil Protection together with the Public Health Service of Health Area III. Diego José Mateos has highlighted that "incorporating this group of professionals and volunteers into the tracking and monitoring tasks will allow our municipality to be at the forefront of the tracker ratio per number of inhabitants at the national level, as Lorca reaches the ratio of one tracker for every 3,000 inhabitants, when the maximum percentage recommended by the World Health Organization is one tracker for every 5,000 inhabitants ". Mateos has specified that "every day 10 people will act in this center, who, upon reaching the maximum level of operation, will develop around 300 hours of tracking per week, which will allow between 1,200 and 1,500 weekly communications with infected people and their possible contacts.
Morning and afternoon shifts will be established from Monday to Sunday, the personnel assigned to this center will contact the positives, through a communication protocol.
For this they will have six latest generation laptops; a digital telephone exchange ; six digital telephone terminals; six complete workstations with security screens; hands-free headset system for each operator, and six telephone lines. On the other hand, the Mayor has stressed that "since the beginning of this pandemic, the City Council, through actions of the Department of Emergencies, has been developing an important effort to support the Department of Health, which is the sole command, as well as well as other municipal councils and services, through the periodic disinfection of critical points (hospitals, health centers, COVID points, nursing homes, etc.), emergency disinfection of confined spaces in public centers with positive cases of Covid among their occupants, distribution of food and medicines, psychological care, information to the population with a public address system, disinfection of emergency vehicles and security, as well as many other cases that have required attention at this time.
" Finally, Mateos insisted that "we will continue to put everything in our power from the City of Lorca within that line of collaboration established with the competent health authorities so that together we can win the battle against coronavirus."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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