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The Minister of Health and the Mayor today visited their facilities in Santa Ana |
With the economic crisis The Huertecica serves up to 4% of drug addicts in their task of rehabilitation and social reintegration in different centers that exist in the region. In recent years we have had to meet increased demand, and is resorting to drugs to be unaware of their status, claimed this morning the director of this group, Diego Cruzado.
The head of the Huertecica and stencil Day Center of Santa Ana, received today the Minister of Health and Social Policy, Catherine Lawrence, Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, and the Councillor for Social Care, Antonio Calderon, who knew these facilities first hand.
In the last nine months have been addressed about 400 people at the centers of Cartagena and Murcia working with drug addicts living on the street, and it advises them on disease prevention.
Regarding the therapeutic community, treating these patients who have no family, he has received in recent months to fifty of them;
and the day center, which are those not receiving family support, 60 people have been.
Additionally it also offers from The Huertecica service employability training programs that have helped 130 people prepare to find a job.
The Huertecica ultimately takes a journey to these people with drug problems to also be rehabilitated, re-entering society and are in good condition to be inserted into the working world, and that is made ​​with a budget of 1,300. 000 euros. Hence, subsidies are necessary for the day to day of this group and to pay current expenses, the director noted.
As to the City, as highlighted by the mayor this morning, The Huertecica has received a grant last year to 139,000 euros plus local assignment available in Cartagena. We've been through good and bad times and, as with other nonprofit groups will always have our collaboration, Barreiro added.
For his part, the Minister stressed that the Huertecia receives the Autonomous Community a grant of more than 700,000 euros for the maintenance of its centers in the region, plus about 120,000 euros from the IMAS (Instituto Murciano Social Action) for training courses attesting to their qualifications, and the aid it receives from the European Union. At the end of the year we also try to give some minor economic contribution of some amount to continue serving these people in this social work concluded Lorenzo .
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The Minister also took advantage of the visit, and to questions from journalists, to take stock of the latest actions being developed in the field of Health and Social Policy in Cartagena, as the reopening in April over the residence of Cubas Source with 140 beds and 40 day center.
Other projects are also being carried out are the new health centers in the Barrio de la Concepción, which is now equipped with furniture, and San Antonio.
The implementation of the School of Nursing at the Hospital del Rosell is another novelty of this course, explained the minister, who claimed that the agreement is being finalized to be ready in four months.
Will this hospital which also become a regional reference in minor surgical procedures with 10 operating rooms remodeling.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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