The Presidency of the Government has communicated this Monday that the following working groups have been constituted five joint Government-Government of Catalonia working groupsunder the commitment of the Executive to facilitate the Valencian Community “all the human, logistical and economic resources required, at all times and as quickly as possible” as a result of the effects of the DANA.
In a press release, the Presidency of the Government details that the groups formed are those of Health, Infrastructures, Social Services and Housing, Employment and Enterprise, and Interior, with their respective ministers involved.
The Government’s priority, the note adds, “continues to be to save lives.recovering the bodies of those killed and restoring basic supplies and services”.
Regarding the Health group, the Minister Mónica García explained, according to the press release of the Presidency, that the Ministry and the Regional Ministry will be dedicated to protect victims, affected people and volunteers, and added that “The main challenge now is the epidemiological surveillance and the prevention of outbreaks”.
“Right now the Consellería has not detected any outbreaks due to the floods of the DANA”, although. “the danger is there and we work to prevent it”.. The priority is to minimize risks because standing water can be dangerous. All warning and response systems must be reinforced,” said Garcia.
To this end, the head of the Center for Coordination of Alerts and Health Emergencies (CCAES), María José Sierra, has been sent to Valencia, together with a team of professionals who have been coordinating on the ground with the Generalitat Valenciana since Monday to prevent outbreaks.
On the other hand, the Infrastructure group has agreed to develop a comprehensive emergency plan to coordinate the recovery of mobility and basic infrastructures in the province of Valencia.
Puente will go to Valencia
In this regard, the note reports that the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puentewill come to Valencia to continue talks and work on the recovery of road and rail infrastructures.
In Puente’s meeting with the Councilor for the Environment, Infrastructures and Territory, Vicente Martínez Mus, and the Councilor for Agriculture, Water, Livestock and Fisheries, Miguel Barrachina, the actions already being carried out by the different administrations on the road and railway network were detailed and a consensus was reached on the constitution of two working subgroups to advance the work and improve coordination.
“A first provisional estimate quantifies in 2.6 billion euros the investment needed to restore the affected area.“, states the note from the Presidency.
It has also been agreed to carry out a transport plan “to provide an alternative mobility until the main roads in and out of Valencia and the municipalities affected by the floods can be restored”.
Bustinduy’s measures,
Pablo BustinduyMinister of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, has met with Susana Camarero, Second Vice-President and Regional Minister of Social Services, Equality and Housing of the Generalitat Valenciana, to coordinate emergency measures in social services and care for people in a situation of dependency. living in the affected areas and to be, in the words of the minister, “as operational as possible”.
“We are working so that the victims of the DANA are not also victims of social exclusion,” he added.
Bustinduy has proposed lines of work to rebuild the social services affected by the DANA and ensure that universal safety nets are in place. “In many cases it will be necessary to rebuild residences and the various day centers and facilities from which close care is provided to the population”.
Social Rights also intends to expedite “Social Emergency Aid for people who are in a situation of exclusion, dependency or homelessness, as well as for elderly people in a situation of loneliness and people with disabilities.”
Also discussed was the need to to reinforce attention in cases of socially vulnerable families.and to extend the coverage of this aid to cases of supervening vulnerability after the catastrophe.
Housing assesses material damages
Isabel RodríguezMinister of Housing and Urban Agenda, and Susana Camarero, Second Vice-President and Councillor for Social Services, Equality and Housing of the Generalitat Valenciana, “have assessed the possible material damage to homes in the areas affected by the DANA and different ways of assistance and housing alternatives for the people who have suffered these damages”, and they have agreed in pointing out that the aid must be executed “with agility and speed”.
In relation to the Employment and Enterprise group, the second vice-president and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, and the Minister of Economy, Commerce and Enterprise, Carlos Cuerpo, met, accompanied by their secretaries of State, Joaquín Pérez Rey and Israel Arroyo.
All of them have conveyed “the total disposition to deploy all the available tools to restore normality to companies and workers as soon as possible”.
A total of 9,267 agents this week.
As far as the Interior group is concerned, The minister of the branch, Fernando Grande-MarlaskaThe Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, and the undersecretary of the department, Susana Crisóstomo, also participated in the meeting.
Grande-Marlaska “has pledged to expedite the agreement of police attached to the autonomous community and has stressed the exponential increase in the number of State Security Forces and Corps personnel. in the regions affected by the DANA in Valencia, which have reached 9,267 agents this week”.
The minister will also study the request made by the councilor “so that agents of different municipal police can perform their activity outside their demarcation to carry out public safety work, during the period of activation of the emergency by the DANA.
Pradas “has requested the revision and updating of the protocol for the communication of alerts, an issue that the minister has undertaken to take to the National Civil Protection Council, where all the autonomous communities are represented”.
The minister recalled “that this massive warning tool to the population was activated for the first time in the autonomous communities of Madrid and Catalonia in September 2023 and since then it has been used effectively on more than fifty occasions.”