The municipality of Totana has been chosen by the Murcian Health Service (SMS) to develop a social health pilot project aimed at establishing a comprehensive action and intervention strategy to combat COVID-19 among the most vulnerable groups.The manager of the Murcian Health Service, Asensio López, recently presented it, in the course of a meeting at the Totana-Sur Health Center, to the team of experts from the Strategic Regional Coordination for Advanced Chronicity and Social Health Care (CORECAAS) of the Ministry of Health.This is made up of two doctors -coordinated by Dr.
Abel Novoa Jurado-, a nurse, a social worker and the sociologist professor at the UMU and director of the Observatory of Social Exclusion, Manuel Hernández Pedreño, who will support the work of social and health coordination that is carried out it has been developing in the municipality since the beginning of the State of Alarm.The mayor, Juan José Cánovas, and those responsible for the administrations, entities and NGOs that have been working in a coordinated manner against the pandemic in this municipality have been present at the project exhibition.The aim of this project is to implement those initiatives that have been proposed as necessary by the different agents involved but that, due to the difficulties derived from the complex social reality of Totana and the scarcity of available resources, had not yet materialized.Totana has been chosen for its peculiar sociological and economic idiosyncrasy, where foreign citizens grouped in 68 different nationalities coexist, which promote the development of the primary sector of the municipality, basically, agriculture.Some of the immediate actions on which it is going to work are the search for alternative accommodation for people infected by COVID-19, and for those who have to be equally isolated because they have maintained close contact with the previous ones - as long as they do not have own resources for it.In addition, it advocates the hiring of translators, training and coordination of trackers; as well as in the development of effective actions to raise awareness among the population and speed up the diagnostic processes, among other matters.The Permanent Commission for the Monitoring of COVID-19 in Totana is made up of the municipal officials of the different political groups; the medical coordinators, heads of Nursing and social workers of both Totana Health Centers; as well as Civil Guard, Local Police, Civil Protection and technicians from the Primary Care Social Services Center.Representatives of Cáritas Santiago, Cáritas Tres Avemarías and the Spanish Red Cross will also actively collaborate in this initiative, entities that have been working and being essential protagonists since the beginning of the pandemic in this municipality.
