A total of eight municipal employees of the Totana City Council have been reinforcing the tracking work in the two health centers of this town since last week, thus supporting the work that has been carried out in the framework of the pilot project of socio-community intervention in this municipality to stop COVID-19 infections.The project is carried out by professionals from the Strategic Regional Coordination for Advanced Chronicity and Social and Health Care of the Murcian Health Service (SMS), and has the invaluable collaboration of volunteers from different NGOs and Totana entities that have been working with the most vulnerable groups to combat this pandemic.At the moment, of the eight municipal workers, most of them professionals from the day centers, physiotherapists or assistants, carry out functions of identifying close contacts and preparing lists that are sent to the Nursing services of both health centers to their subsequent appointment and clinical and social monitoring.The tasks are teleworking, four of them at the Totana Norte Health Center and the other four at Totana Sur, after having received training; and in some cases they are full time within their working hours and others carry out part of it (a few hours) together with their professional activity.In addition, the Totana City Council is already working on the elaboration of the model of agreement for the recruitment of volunteers in order to help disseminate information about the coronavirus and other objectives of awareness to the most vulnerable neighbors, in the hands of NGOs and medical professionals within the framework of the aforementioned project.These volunteers will be able to carry out works of distribution of posters in strategic establishments and public buildings, collaborate in the control of capacity and compliance with security measures in open spaces (parks, streets and other pedestrianized places) and collaborate in proposed activities, at strategic points, between the Totanero Council and the SMS, for the promotion of healthy and educational spaces.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana