Portal de Murcia

www.portaldemurcia.com

• Home
• Business
• Hotels
• Restaurants
• News
• Advertisement

| In the last two weeks, SEMAS has assisted 18 people, 15 men and 3 women, of Spanish, Portuguese, Moroccan, Senegalese nationality, Mali, German and Hungarian | The Murcia City Council, through the Mobile Emergency Service and Social Care (SEMAS), dependent on the Department of Social Rights and Family, led by the mayor Pilar Torres, has treated 74 homeless people this winter within the framework of the Cold Operation, a special service that the Murcian Consistory has when temperatures in the municipality drop below 6 degrees and has been active for seven weeks.

Since the implementation of this device, a total of 62 men and 12 women have received care. Those treated in the last two weeks have been 15 men and three women.

Twelve of them are Spanish and one is Portuguese, Moroccan, Senegalese, Malian, German and Hungarian.

SEMAS technicians distributed food, hot drinks, blankets and sleeping bags to them.

The areas that were visited were San Pío X, El Carmen, Infante Juan Manuel, the vicinity of the Ciudad del Transporte, Gran Vía, Plaza Circular, Vistalegre, Santa María de Gracia, San Andrés, San Antón, San Antolín, La Merced, San Nicolás, the Caalle La Gloria, the surroundings of the bullring, the Plaza de la Aurora and La Fama. Personal contact The Councilor for Social Rights, Pilar Torres, explained that "this service is developed by establishing personal contact, studying the particular situation of each person and creating a link that facilitates the process of intervention and social inclusion of these people who live in a situation of exclusion ". The components of this special device are on permanent alert, but when the temperature drops below 6 degrees the output becomes more exhaustive, providing a service of information, attention, accompaniment and delivery of hot drinks, food, sleeping bags or blankets for care for homeless people who are in extreme situations, trying to promote their social integration. Streets, gardens and orchard areas SEMAS runs through the streets, gardens, ATMs and garden areas of the municipality, providing help to people who sleep on public roads and in need. Depending on the specific circumstances of each person, different resources are also offered, such as transfers to the Fundación Patronato Jesús Abandonado center or the Fundación RAIS, other accommodations, or hospitals, if necessary, in addition to carrying out a tracing. The Mobile Emergency and Social Care Service, made up of social workers from the City Council and Local Police officers, depends on the Department of Social Rights and Family, headed by Pilar Torres.

function { ;(, , {});}

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia