In the middle of a virtual meeting held this Sunday in Barranquilla between the mayor Jaime Pumarejo Heins and the governor of the Atlantic, Elsa Noguera, with the bench of the department, the Atlantic congressmen expressed their support for the attention of the pandemic by the leaders.
However, in the meeting – also coordinated in person by Senator Armando Benedetti -, the congressmen made a series of requests to the national government ahead of next Friday’s meeting with President Iván Duque.
The idea, read in the district administration’s statement, is “to ask that the Nation’s commitment to the needs of this region of the country increase.”
The legislators, likewise, highlighted the active search model carried out by Barranquilla, “because it is what guarantees the early detection of those infected and, therefore, more assertiveness in the measures,” indicates the Mayor’s Office.
The informal session was also attended by the superintendent of Health, Fabio Aristizábal, who, at the request of the congressmen and the leaders, promised to “tighten” the EPS even more and supported the proposal to contract with the public IPS the care packages home, which includes search, tracking and testing.
Meanwhile, Pumarejo and Noguera made a balance of the measures agreed in the last technical table with the bench of the region.
The mayor also highlighted the collaboration he has been receiving from the national government, which gave the city 111 fans to enable the same number of ICU beds, and is preparing to rotate food aid for 50 thousand families in the next few days, which is equivalent to at about $ 5 billion, approximately.
The meeting was attended remotely by congressmen Carlos Meisel, Miguel Amín, César Lorduy, Jezmi Barraza, José Amar, Efraín Cepeda, Eduardo Pulgar, Modesto Aguilera, Laureano Acuña, Laura Fortich, Armando Zabaraín, Karina Rojano, Antonio Zabaraín, Martha Villalba, José David Name and Arturo Char.
In the statement from the Atlantic bench, it is read that political leaders commit to “manage the creation of a Citizen Solidarity Income and other concrete solutions to the COVID-19 crisis.”
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