The telephone to attend to the elderly alone or sick closes with more than 2,600 calls | BE Gijón | Today for Today Gijón

The telephone line authorized in March to attend the crisis of the COVID-19 a elderly or chronically ill that lacked a social network has stopped providing service after having attended 2,676 calls.

Through this line, all kinds of information related to the coronavirus was offered and the delivery of food, drugs and personal hygiene kits was managed. Total, 577 people, he 71% of them women over 66 years old and residents in Oviedo, Gijón The Aviles, they received some kind of assistance in their homes. Thus, they surrendered 1.507 kits, half with food and the rest with medicines and hygiene products.

He general director of HousingFermín Bravo, has valued this service “very positively”. “It shows that this Government has taken into account the most vulnerable groups During this pandemic, those who have been given a response by providing food, medication and hygiene products in their homes, always in order to avoid them having to leave home, thus minimizing the risk of contacts and contagion “, has underlined.

He service telephone had three lines, Monday through Friday, attended by professionals and volunteers from Red Cross, in charge of responding to one of the most vulnerable groups during the crisis. Is initiative is part of the actions developed by the Social Action Group of the Emergency Committee Asturias, in which the Ministry of Social Rights and Welfare, the Asturian Federation of Councils (FACC), Civil Protection, 112 Asturias and the Red Cross have participated.

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