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During the past week, the Mobile Emergency and Social Assistance Service of the City of Murcia (SEMAS), of the Department of Social and Family Rights, attended a total of 5 homeless people due to low temperatures.
Of these 4 have been men and one woman, of various nationalities, seven being from Spain, two from Bulgaria, and the rest from Holland, Romania and Hungary.
To them, in addition to giving information and guidance of social resources they were given 5 hot food and drinks, and a sleeping bag.
The areas that were covered were El Carmen, Centro Zone, Plano de San Francisco, San Antolín, San Andrés, San Antón, Santa María de Gracia, San Basilio.
The components of the device are permanently alert but when the temperature drops below 5 degrees the output becomes more exhaustive, providing an information service, attention, support and delivery of hot drinks, food, sleeping bags or blankets to serve people without home that are in extreme situations, trying to promote their social integration.
Thus, SEMAS travels through the streets, gardens, ATMs and garden areas of the municipality, providing assistance to people who sleep on public roads and need it, to whom blankets, sleeping bags, raincoats, hot drinks, etc., according to the needs of each case.
Depending on the specific circumstances of each person, different resources are also offered, such as the transfer to the center of the Abandoned Jesus Foundation or to the RAIS Foundation, other accommodations, or hospital centers, if necessary, in addition to monitoring .
The Mobile Emergency and Social Assistance Service, made up of social workers from the City Council and Local Police agents, depends on the Department of Social and Family Rights, which Pilar Torres directs.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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