Santa Cruz (Bolivia), Jul 24 (EFE) .- A package of medicines and another with food arrive on the outskirts of Santa Cruz, the Bolivian city most hit by the pandemic, to the relief of needy families who see them as Control volunteers. Roundabouts approach with help.
COVID-19", asegura a Efe Kitita Roca, una de las sesenta voluntarias que se reparten en una decena de brigadas que recorren la ciudad, la mayor de Bolivia con más de millón y medio de habitantes." data-reactid="28">“Bolivia is mired in total abandonment on the issue of COVID-19,” Kitita Roca, one of the sixty volunteers who are divided into a dozen brigades that tour the city, assures Efe, the largest in Bolivia with more than a million and half of inhabitants.
coronavirus y necesitan alimentos o comida." data-reactid="29">Public aid does not always go to humble neighborhoods like La Favela, where Controla Rotondas finds isolated people in their homes suffering from the new coronavirus and needing food or food.
coronavirus", es uno de los lemas que se leen en los uniformes de los voluntarios." data-reactid="30">“At home we can fight the coronavirus”, is one of the slogans that are read on the uniforms of the volunteers.
Roca explains that they are given a free “kit” of medications such as ivermectin, ibuprofen and aspirin, after a medical review that includes taking the temperature and checking how they oxygenate.
The visit of the volunteers also includes the distribution of food for those who need it, both for families and for common pots in the neighborhood.
The brigadistas, as they call each other, have not suffered casualties due to contagions of the disease that have slowed their solidarity work, says the volunteer.
coronavirus, que acumula casi la mitad de los más de 65.000 casos de la enfermedad confirmados en el país y la mayor parte de los más de 2.400 fallecidos." data-reactid="34">Santa Cruz is the capital of the region of the same name, the most affected in Bolivia by the new coronavirus, which accumulates almost half of the more than 65,000 confirmed cases of the disease in the country and most of the more than 2,400 deaths. .
The city, the economic capital of Bolivia, also suffers the effects of more than four months of quarantine, with restrictions that have reduced activity and left many people without income.
The solidarity work of groups such as Control Rotondas, which are nourished by donations, some institutional, such as the Mayor’s Office of Santa Cruz, and others from companies or unions in some markets, is a help for those who have run out of resources and need medicine or food. .
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