The Councilor for Health and Public Health of the City of Cieza specifies that the Red Cross, Cáritas and Cermi will be in charge of distributing 7,800,000 masks among the most vulnerable population groups, while another 7,200,000 masks will reach citizens through the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces.The Secretary of State for Health, Silvia Calzón, accompanied by the general deputy director of the SNS Service Portfolio and Compensation Funds, Cristina González del Yerro, met last Thursday with the president of Cermi, Luis Cayo Pérez; the president of Cáritas, Manuel Bretón, and the director of the Red Cross Health Department, Carmen Martín, in order to address the distribution of a new batch of masks during this month of November and a similar quantity during the month of December.In a press release, the Councilor for Health and Public Health of the City of Cieza, Francisco Saorín, has highlighted "the daily work and collaboration that the Red Cross, Cáritas has been providing in the municipality since the beginning of the pandemic, helping the people in vulnerable situations ".
Likewise, it has encouraged them to continue contributing, with their cooperation, to distribute protection materials to these groups in situations of special economic vulnerability.Saorín explained that the Ministry of Health has received requests from the Red Cross, Cermi and Cáritas and is going to deliver a total of 7,800,000 masks in November and a similar amount in December, in order to meet the needs of these social entities.
The first delivery will take place in the next few days.Likewise, and in coordination with the General Secretariat for Territorial Coordination, the Ministry of Health will send to the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces a monthly item in November and December of 7,200,000 masks to make them reach the vulnerable population at the local level.The Councilor for Health and Public Health of the City Council of Cieza has declared that, as on previous occasions, this distribution of the 15 million monthly masks will be made through the Government delegations in each autonomous community.Saorín has stressed that, since March 10, the material distributed to these social entities and municipal corporations totals more than 43 million units.
Specifically, the figure rises to 43,432,047, and it includes surgical masks, FFP2 protective masks, nitrile gloves and hydroalcoholic solutions.Finally, the mayor, even taking into account that the curve of the pandemic is falling in Cieza, since the number of active cases due to covid-19 this Sunday stood at 137, which represents a cumulative incidence per 100,000 inhabitants in the In the last seven and fourteen days of 180.1 and 491.6 cases, respectively, it has once again recommended "not to raise the guard" and to follow the usual recommendations of the health authorities, "because with this pandemic we have to end the effort collaboration and discipline of all ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza