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The City Council of Murcia, through the Department of Social Rights, directed by Conchita Ruiz, intensifies the attention to elderly or homeless people who are on the street in the face of a considerable increase of heat.

The objective is to mitigate the physical consequences of exposure to high temperatures of two groups especially vulnerable to health complications due to physical or mental deterioration.

Firstly, through SEMAS, Mobile Emergency and Social Care Service, the City of Murcia is making a special follow-up to the homeless around midday and in the afternoon, to avoid the effects on health can cause Prolonged exposure to high temperatures.

Thus, SEMAS professionals, in two-person teams composed of a social worker and a local police, are attending to the citizens with the highest risk, who are provided with appropriate means of hydration, while being informed about The strategies they can take to reduce the impact of heat on their body.

They are also informed about the different municipal social resources at their disposal.

The profile of the people who are attended daily by the SEMAS is of a man between 36 and 55 years old and of Spanish origin.

They mainly present mental illness, addiction to toxic substances and great physical deterioration.

Tele-assistance reinforcement

But in addition a special device has been put in place to prevent extreme heat from affecting the health of older people in the municipality who are at risk, older people who receive the usual telecare service.

The plan was activated last June 1 and will remain in operation until September 15, with the objective of establishing action measures to prevent, minimize and address the effects on the health of users of the service can cause temperatures Extreme.

The preventive measures are applied to all users of the Tele-assistance service, and refer mainly to recommendations to avoid or reduce the impact of heat that are communicated from the central and through information leaflets.

The device intervenes directly with the most vulnerable users - over 80 years of age living alone - and with those who have not suffered any emergency due to extreme temperatures.

With them a stricter protocol is applied for the detection of possible symptoms, including calls and personalized visits.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia