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After the visit today to the facilities where AFAL provides its services, a local of about eighty square meters and provided by the Murciano Institute of Social Action (IMAS) in the Alameda de San Antón, the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, has denounced that despite the promises and commitments of the regional government of the PP and local administration of the PSOE, this group continues, 21 years later, performing therapies in 40 square meters shared with another association, "an insufficient space and poor conditioning that it has forced over time to suspend group therapies and has generated a waiting list of almost 43 people for psychological and group and individual rehabilitation, people who due to family need have had to be admitted to centers for daytime stays or residences ".
Due to the lack of space, the last appointments to evaluate the patient were made in July 2018.
In the June 2018 plenary session, the Councilor for Social Services, María del Carmen Martín del Amor, reported that she had offered AFAL a location in the Mediterranean Urbanization with about 80 square meters, "this solution that is already being used by Afal is only provisional and a patch to the real needs of the association that has 220 users that require a permanent space with at least 600 square meters, "says Manuel Padín.
AFAL currently has about 230 users in Cartagena, a figure that increases each year by 4.5 percent per year.
"We are talking about health functions that should correspond to the Ministry of Health, and also social functions that the City can and should protect and address," says the spokesman of Cs Cartagena denouncing that "on the one hand the regional government of the PP has abandoned to their luck to these sociosanitary associations and the local Executive has not known, beyond the annual subsidies, offer a solution to the lack of space for more than two decades.
"As politicians we are not able to solve these situations, everything will get worse," says Padin who recalls that life expectancy has increased dramatically worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2020, for the first time in history, the range of people over 60 will exceed that of children under 5 years of age, "the aging of our population is a challenge that we have to face, crystallizes in issues such as AFAL or the Parkinson's Association of Cartagena, and in a few years will transform our social structure, if we do not prepare to plan a comprehensive strategy for this unprecedented population challenge will be a disaster for older people affected by neurodegenerative diseases, "said the spokesman of Cs Cartagena .
Missing pardons
Citizens believe it necessary, and so requested through a plea in the plenary of December 2018, that a Local Safety Board be convened as soon as possible and that representatives of the AFAL Association be invited in an extraordinary way so that they can explain their experience with protocols and devices that exist to search for missing persons with vulnerable profiles, such as those affected by Alzheimer's.
"We have powerful reasons to think that they can improve considerably, and in this sense AFAL has a lot to say", informs the spokesman of the liberal training that announces that "given that the PSOE has once again despised this initiative we will take it as a motion.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena
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