Six days have passed since DANA was unleashed last Tuesday, devastating many municipalities in the province of València (Utiel, Chiva, Paiporta, Picanya, Aldaia, Sedaví, Benetússer, Catarroja, Alfafar…), and they are still being rescued corpses. The Cecopi (Integrated Operational Coordination Center) has confirmed this Monday that there are now 211 the official number of people who have died only in the province of València (to which we should add the three who died in Castilla-La Mancha and another in the province from Malaga due to the storm). On Tuesday, historical rainfall records were broken in Spain, with 179 liters per square meter in one hour and 42 liters in 10 minutes in the Valencian town of Turís.
Regarding the number of missing people, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, stated this Monday that it is not possible to “give a really reliable number”, which does not mean that the authorities are not “in a permanent search for all those people whose disappearance has been made known and reported to both the Police and the Civil Guard.”
However, the process of “survey and identification of the victims” continues and until Sunday, November 3, the forensic doctors had carried out 183 autopsies on people who died from cold drop since last Wednesday, October 30, and of them, 67 They are fully identified thanks to fingerprints. This is reflected in the updated statistics of the Integrated Data Center (CID), a technical body that is made up of a Forensic Office and an Office of the State Security Forces and Bodies, with specialized agents from the Civil Guard and the National Police Corps. Police, and whose main function is to gather and supervise the different identification reports carried out by the different institutions.
All the deceased on whom the autopsy has been performed, whether or not they already have a positive identification report, have been transferred by the Military Emergency Unit (UME) from the City of Justice of Valencia, in whose basements they are centralized. the reception of the fatal victims, to the morgue that has been set up at Fira València.
The Institute of Legal Medicine of Valencia has more than 130 personnel at its disposal to deal with the emergency, including forensic doctors, psychologists, social workers, laboratory assistants, doctors and autopsy technicians, along with processing personnel.
Work continues in the area
Meanwhile, work continues in the towns devastated by the storm. Volunteers from all over work side by side with agents from the National Police, Civil Guard, Firefighters, Civil Protection or members of the Army. This Monday it arrived at the port of Valencia, which has a crew of 150 sailors and has 104 marines and heavy machinery on board (it can accommodate 400 more people). The ship has a hangar and flight deck to operate several helicopters simultaneously, garages to transport a large number of vehicles, a floodable dock to operate with boats, and a hospital with two operating rooms and eight ICU beds.
Last Saturday, the President of the Government announced last Saturday the sending of 5,000 military personnel and another 5,000 agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard who join the more than 2,500 military personnel, 1,800 national police and 2,700 civil guards, as well as several groups specialized in rescue and underwater activities, deployed in the first 48 hours in Valencia.
The king, Sánchez and Mazón, received among insults and mud in Paiporta
The kings, Felipe and Letizia, visited ground zero of DANA last Sunday, accompanied by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the head of the Consell, Carlos Mazón. The official delegation was received in Paiporta by a crowd of people with insults (“murderers”, “sons of bitches” and “out, out”) and throwing mud, a situation that overwhelmed security and caused Mazón and Sánchez, who was attacked with a stick, were evacuated by the agents who were escorting them. The kings still remained in the place for about an hour listening to some of the neighbors and trying to talk to them.
The attack on Pedro Sánchez has been claimed by the extreme right. Specifically, one of the ‘volunteers’ linked to the ultra Revuelta group acknowledges in a chat to which elDiario.es has had access: “We from my association are here, we have destroyed their car, but we have only been able to hit it with a stick in the the back.”
after the storm
Last Saturday, President Mazón announced last Saturday the creation of five committees to manage the crisis generated by DANA, headed by one councilor each: Health, Infrastructure, Housing and Social Services, Employment and Business and Interior; Infrastructures; Social Services and Housing; Employment and Business; and Interior.
The Ministry of Labor is preparing a rule with a package of measures that reinforce the protection of workers before Dana, to avoid risks to their health and labor reprisals in the face of difficulties due to the catastrophe, explain sources from the department headed by Vice President Yolanda Díaz. . “It will have retroactive effects,” they guarantee, to send the urgent message to citizens that no one puts themselves at risk through their work from now on, a series of measures ranging from paid leave to teleworking. In addition, he announced this Monday that the dismissal of people who have not come to work as a result of the effects of Dana will be prohibited, meaning that they will be considered null and void and justified absences. The Ministry of Social Security, for its part, has announced a benefit for cessation of activity that will not require the minimum contribution of 12 months and that will not consume the right to ordinary cessation for the future.
Doctor in Epidemiology from Harvard José María Martín-Moreno warned that hepatitis A or leptospirosis can arise in the disaster zone due to consuming contaminated water and also diseases transmitted by mosquitoes. Volunteers must act “under the supervision of the authorities”, wear glasses, waterproof gloves, long clothing and have up-to-date vaccinations.
Source: www.eldiario.es
