| Together with those in charge of each health center and their social workers, a social network will be set up in each area with the aim of offering information to all residents to stop the infections by coronavirus | The Cartagena City Council works together with those responsible for each health center and their social workers to set up a social network in each area with the aim of offering information to all neighbors to stop coronavirus infections, especially families with the elderly economic or integration problems."Our social workers work together with health for a larger project that extends the experience of Barrio Peral to the entire municipality," said the vice mayor of Cartagena, Noelia Arroyo, who explained that the two main objectives are "first, to prevent contagions, insisting in all neighborhoods on the importance of following health recommendations and, second, having rapid reaction mechanisms in each community in each neighborhood to inform and help the quarantined population ".SITUATION IN BARRIO DE PERALCurrently, the work is focused on the Peral neighborhood and its surroundings, "we are doing it together with the social entities that work within the neighborhoods.
Caritas and a community of religious who live in the area are already helping us," he explained.
Stream.The work consists of informing and convincing the entire population of the importance of quarantine, starting with the families indicated by Salud and offering the necessary aid so that no one has to break the quarantine for economic reasons.Civil Protection has increased the presence with a public address system in the neighborhood and in the next few days we will incorporate the network of collaborators within the neighborhood to the set of social entities and associations to help us in the dissemination of these messages and aid.
"At this moment there is a family in quarantine to whom we are delivering food through civil protection," said the deputy mayor.Noelia Arroyo has pointed out that "this is not only a health problem; it is a social problem and a problem that is growing and that we have to take very seriously.
We have to break the chains of contagion, guarantee that the isolation of sick and Sick contacts are strictly adhered to.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena