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| The network activates protocols to help families in quarantine and prevent infections due to breach of isolation | The Cartagena City Council, through the Department of Social Services, has developed coordination protocols with the Murcian Health Service, which will allow for quick responses in order to help families in quarantine.

This initiative will also have the collaboration of social entities and neighborhood associations of the municipality to detect and prevent risks of contagion due to economic and social causes.The protocols, pioneers in socio-health coordination in the face of Covid-19, have been exposed this Friday, September 11 at the Rossell hospital located in Cartagena, during a meeting in which professionals from the municipal Social Services, responsible and social workers from the municipal health centers and the Federation of Neighborhood Associations (FAVCAC).As explained by the deputy mayor and head of Social Care, Noelia Arroyo, “a rapid response system has been established through which Health will inform Social Services of cases of quarantine in families with financial difficulties, so that the council can analyze the case and lean on neighborhood entities to offer the necessary support to guarantee isolation ”.The second coordination protocol consists of a prevention and alert system, aimed at information and case detection, for which community work in each area is essential.“We need the knowledge that neighborhood associations and social entities have in each neighborhood.

That is why we have to thank them for their willingness to create these neighborhood networks, which will allow us to quickly offer the aid that breaks the chain of contagion ”, stated the deputy mayor.

In this sense, Health will carry out training aimed at the agents involved, to guarantee the best information and prevent infections in the event of possible outbreaks.Arroyo has indicated that the protocols developed have been made taking advantage of “the coordination experience that our work in the Peral neighborhood has already given us and also instruments to coordinate with social entities in which this City Council is also a pioneer, such as the computer application RAIC, in which we share information on aid to families to make them more effective ”.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena