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The Mayor of Ceuta, Juan Felipe Cano, and the regional president of the Red Cross in the Region of Murcia, Aurelio Luna, have signed on the morning of Monday 29 December a partnership agreement by which the Consistory ceutiense assign a warehouse municipal ownership of 450 m2 for it to become the regional logistics warehouse for Emergency Relief and scope of this organization.
These municipal facilities are located on the road to Mula, Close to the lorry park of the town, and serve to store, sort and organize the material that the volunteers used in assistance from the Immediate Response Teams that Red Cross maintains Murcia.
"The volunteers must always be ready when the activation call, as per protocol response time must be very short," said Luna, who wanted "deeply grateful for the assistance of the City of Ceuta, as this resource will act more effectively to any emergency that may arise. "
"As we had the opportunity to establish this cooperative relationship with the Red Cross did not hesitate for a moment to contribute our bit to his magnificent work," said Cano, who pointed out that this organization will provide assistance both in the different municipal acts where their intervention and training to local groups that request is necessary.
Always available
"The phone can ring at any time, even at odd hours, at 3 am, and last year had to intervene even on New Year's Eve," says the president of the Red Cross in the Region of Murcia.
The 'activation' as they call it, "has no predetermined time, for these emergencies have no preset agenda and have to be always prepared," he adds.
"Also, be subjected to a situation of emotional risk causes a high turnover among volunteers, for which we have a list of over 200 volunteers with a comprehensive and ready to intervene training is given," says Moon.
Specifically, so far in 2014, volunteers from ERIE intervened 56 times, of which 16 corresponded exclusively to the ERIE Humanitarian Assistance for Immigrants, serving the needs of shelter, food and hot drink, shelter provisional and health assessment of 191 people who arrived aboard 17 boats.
Among the Immediate Response Teams Emergency Red Cross based in Murcia, also highlights the performance of Psychosocial Care ERIE, which intervened on 37 occasions.
The components of this team, "offered to all affected, directly or indirectly, immediate psychological care at the time of the emergency to relieve their suffering and mourning company to family and friends."
In a maximum of three hours, the computer is running, including psychologists, social workers, doctors, nurses and first responders accompaniment.
"The volunteers that are part of these teams had a particularly outstanding performance during the last earthquake in Lorca or the recent accident Cieza, for instance" said Aurelio Moon.
The performance of the volunteers also a rapid deployment of personnel and resources to assist immigrants arriving by boat.
"The protocol provides that involved volunteers provide blankets, hot drinks and food as well as a hygiene kit, all within the facilities that the Port Authority has given us to do," the president of Red Cross.
Furthermore, "Red Cross health made an assessment of the health of these people, before they pass available to the law enforcement of public policy, so if cases are detected so require urgent transfers are made the enabled nearest hospital units, "says Aurelio Moon.
Hence the AHI ERIE involves a multidisciplinary team consisting of professionals from different areas, led by a chief officer in charge of coordinating effective.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Ceutí
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