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The Department of Social Services of the City of Cartagena and the Primary Care Management of the Autonomous Region of Murcia are conducting a joint campaign to prevent the effects of the heat wave elderly dependents.
As explained by the primary care physician assistant principal, Carmen Santiago, Cartagena in the town of 2,100 people are immobilized or dependent and are the most vulnerable in situations of extreme heat.
The collaboration between the council and management starts in the query itself or the medical patients, when a health worker detects which one may be more prone to these complications because of their social and personal.
This risk is transferred to the Municipal Institute of Social Services through a mobile reference and is designed together with the best service it can offer that person depending on your situation: home care, catering, Telecare, respite care ...
Santiago stressed that the most important thing is to follow the recommendations of experts in times of extreme heat and drink plenty of fluids.
Deputy Director of Primary Care explained that the heat wave alert occurs when a continuous, minimum and maximum temperature is between 22 and 38 degrees and is usually activated from 1 June to 30 September.
To do this, from the Ministry of Health have been developed and distributed a series of informative posters and brochures for health centers in the region with recommendations and advice to a heat wave.
The councilman of Social Care, Antonio Calderon has stressed the important work of Caritas volunteers in the proper functioning of this joint campaign.
The reference cell of the Municipal Institute of Social Services are 968128851, 968128826 (building of La Milagrosa) and 968,321,513 (center of the Plaza of Spain).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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