Enemig of the devastation caused by DANA In the Valencian region of l’Horta Sud, the country of the dies has brought to light various health needs. Metges, nurses and volunteer technicians They travel along the streets of the devastated towns to offer their services to everyone who needs them. The accumulation of fang and brutality makes mobility impossible, fet makes it difficult to obtain medicationsespecially for patients with chronic illnesses. The volunteer health workers will try to attend to these accidents, while also curing some injuries caused by the deixalles removal feines. He worries, but, the lack of tetanus vaccines. At the same time, there are many consultations from people who “col·lapsats” psychologically “because they do not assume the situation.”
L’Estela Hidalgo I went to Torrent and is going to offer as a doctor to the Picanya roads as soon as they are going to open the roads. She works at the ambulatori d’aquest poble, and ara s’ha bolcat a fer de voluntària tothora among the veïns that I need. “Above all, we are attentive to the ferits of talls and cops, while managing the medication of chronic patients,” he tells ACN about the restaurant he is in, along with the staff that usually works at the Picanya CAP.
The health workers call the situation “dire”
“Above all, pay attention to the details of talls and cops, while managing the medication of chronic patients”
This metgessa remembers that the town will be three days without drinking waterwhich makes hygiene difficult and can cause infections. Això s’hi adds that The outpatient clinic will be devastated by the torrentso that a temporary space has been enabled for the residence of the children, but without sterilized or hygienically prepared salts. This situation Do not have tetanus vaccines to care for people with their commitments, while also caring for patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment. The health workers called the situation “dire.”
He states that the medications and health supplies they have are “very basic,” and he points out that they try to fer d’intermediaris amb les pharmacies de municipis veïnsbecause those who went to Picanya will be destroyed by DANA. If anyone needs special medical attention, they are referred to the hospital or health centers in other towns.
In addition to the risk of infections, another concern arises in the care of dependent patients, the possibility of cardiovascular accidents due to stress and those derived from lack of mobility, as well as hypertensive crises, according to the infermer Giuliano Castellanofrom Jaén.
“Fem una mica el que podem porquè no hay psychòleges y hi ha molta gent amb post-traumatic stress, molt col·lapsada”
He is not the first cop to act as a volunteer to attend to the needs of major disasters, so he assures that “he knew who the scene would be.” The streets of Picanya are reminiscent of the devastation that is going to happen to l’Aquila, to Italywith the terratrèmol of 2009, “all will remain in cinders and res more.” “Dona la mateixa sensation, empitjorada because here there are floods, and the fang and the ferits carry infections”, afegeix. I also admitted that it has remained “molt impactat“We see the effects of the catastrophe a few kilometers from home.
In addition to strict health care, the Estela and the Giuliano also received these days many consultations related to psychological management. “It’s just that we can because we don’t have any psychology and there are many people with post-traumatic stress, many collapses,” he explains, remembering that practically all the families in the town have been directly or indirectly affected on a material level, in the time that the search for missing persons and the recovery of mortal victims continues.
In Giuliano he laments that “la genta demana ajuda molt abiada” fruit “d’haver-ho perdut tot.” If they try to provide them with initial help, the patients most in need of emotional support are referred to a Helpline managed by voluntary psychologists specialties.
Sanitary recommendations
Given the number of people who are currently working in the street network, the Generalitat Valenciana has also announced a following of official recommendations to avoid public health problems.
In this sense, it demands that Neither children, pregnant women, asthmatic or immunocompromised people participated in the neteja snacks.now that he urges everyone who collaborates in the recovery of the roads to use masks and helmets. In the case of finding dead animals, it is ordered not to manipulate them and to notify the municipal authorities.
Regarding the use of electric generators, the government Warns of the risks of using both gasoline and diesel in inland countriesand remember that pressure netting machines must manipulate both the engine located outside.
Finally, assenyala that all the objects that will remain submerged under the water must be filled if they have not been able to seal the passages of so many days of the torrent and make a crida a Do not eat foods that may have been in contact with the water..
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