| And equate Health Area 3 with more means | The councilors of Totana and Lorca ask the regional government for more health means and priority in aid to reduce the number of infections by COVID-19 in both municipalities in those municipalities most affected by the consequences of the pandemicThe mayors of Totana and Lorca, Juan José Cánovas and Diego José Mateos, have held a working meeting this morning in the Totanero Consistory to take stock of the coronavirus situation in both municipalities, currently immersed in Phase 1 made more flexible, sharing problems and solutions in order to establish a common strategy to reduce the number of COVID-19 infections.Both mayors have asked the Government of the Autonomous Community, jointly, "priority when receiving financial aid" and "more health means for the municipalities most affected by the pandemic."The mayor of Totana has detailed that "we ask the regional government for a commitment to prioritize resources in those populations in which there is a greater number of people affected by coronavirus, as is currently the case in both Totana and Lorca"; and he has insisted that it must be sensitive to those municipalities that are suffering this crisis in a special way and, above all, with the most affected sectors, such as small businesses, the hotel industry and the self-employed.The first mayor has referred to the problems that this pandemic causes in the working conditions of many workers in this region, such as the lack of housing and housing solutions that the most disadvantaged and vulnerable social groups have, which are being severely punished by the pandemic; a situation that is common considering the social and economic structure of both municipalities.Juan José Cánovas has highlighted the “problem that a high percentage of those infected in the municipality reside in homes with an occupation much higher than their real capacity” and has proposed “to take into account the existence of a multitude of closed houses both to revitalize the city ??to try to alleviate this situation ”.Cánovas has insisted that “it is necessary to inform our neighbors, the regional government, the sole health command, must explain the situation in which we find ourselves and make decisions.
But being in and out of temporary confinements poses serious problems and confusion for our citizens ”.In addition, it has underlined the need to address the conditions of housing and work transport, guaranteeing the minimum conditions of coexistence and avoiding the significant exacerbation of risks and infections that occur in these municipalities that live mainly from agriculture.
Juan José Cánovas has called for individual and collective responsibility in the fight against the virus "to face it together"; and has advocated for the empathy, solidarity and brotherhood of the peoples to combat this pandemic.The mayors have highlighted that "from the City Councils we are assuming competences that are not ours and which we have to deal with with the few resources and municipal means" and, therefore, has again requested "the Government of the Region of Murcia to expedite aid and prioritize the most affected municipalities ”.For his part, the mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, has requested “more resources, both material and personal, for Health Area 3 to match the rest of the areas since we are talking about one of the great forgotten areas, the Cinderella of the areas of health in the Region of Murcia, with deficiencies that already existed before this crisis and that now become even more evident since it offers health care to the municipalities of Lorca, Totana, Águilas, Puerto Lumbreras and Aledo ”.The councilor from Lorca has insisted on the need to “prioritize the sending of resources to those municipalities with the highest percentage of cases due to Covid and that are confined.
We are talking about making rapid tests available to our toilets to speed up obtaining results ”.In addition, Mateos recalled that "from the City Council of Lorca we have been asking the Murcian Health Service for several weeks to advance the flu vaccination campaign since it is a very important step since it means reducing the care pressure to which our health workers are they are facing due to this pandemic and to which we do not want the cases of common flu to also add ”.The first mayor of Lorca has highlighted that "in Lorca the confinement measures are being complied with, thanks also to the police controls that are reflected in the statistics and in which we find that small group, of 1 percent who do not comply with security measures, which puts the rest of the population in check ”.
