This Sunday marks the 19th day of the flood that devastated the Huerta Sur of Valencia and in Paiportaone of the most affected localities, the situation is still critical for different reasons.
There are no businesses open, and no matter where you look, mud and debris flood every corner. The mayoress of this municipality describes the situation as “critical” and “desperate”. for its inhabitants, as much more resources are needed to restore the situation to near normality.
Maribel Albalat also denounces the risk to public health posed by the collapse of the sewers, which “is producing that they arrive sewage into homeswith the health risks that this entails”.
Nearly three weeks later, only a couple of pharmacies are serving as best they can the over 26,000 local residents. Small heroic gestures in streets that are still collapsed and in which free services such as hairdressing are offered, given the impossibility, as yet, of opening any establishment.
Schools closed
As for the schools, the City Council and the educational community of Paiporta have agreed not to resume classes until all Public Health requirements are met and have asked the Regional Ministry of Education that to make the date of the beginning of classes more flexible. and extend temporary shelter to students in schools that cannot reopen.
As reported by the City Council in a statement, the Department of Education has announced that classes will begin next November 25, but the Department of Education of the Consistory has taken up the request of the educational centers of the municipality to wait until the conditions are certified and the families are completely sure that the students return with all the guarantees.
The councilor of Education of Paiporta, Susana Morenohas reassured the directors of the centers and the Ampas and has affirmed: “No student will in any case lose his place in his center of origin and the classes will not be resumed until it is completely safe and the sanitary conditions are perfectly certified both inside the center and in the access roads”.
For her part, the inspector of Education, Ana Ramirez, explained that the Conselleria is studying the possibility of extending the deadline for the return of students displaced to other locations.
While the situation of the students is regulated, the start of classes and telematic attention is being studied. for students who have not been able to travel and, during the next few days, the telematic connection by each center will begin progressively.
The educational community and the City Council of Paiporta agree that classes will not be resumed in the centers of origin until the access roads and all the educational centers comply with all the necessary health and safety conditions.