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The City of Murcia, through the Department of Social Rights, directed Conchita Ruiz, has launched a special device to prevent extreme heat affects the health of 798 elderly in the municipality who are at risk of the 2,345 users who receive the usual tele-assistance service.
Of these 800 people, 7 are at level 3 (maximum risk), 655 at the secondary level and 136 at low risk.
The plan was activated last June 1 and will remain in operation until September 15, in order to establish performance measures to prevent, minimize and address the effects on the health of the people using the service can cause temperatures extreme.
Preventive measures apply to all users of the Telecare service, and refer mainly to recommendations to avoid or reduce the impact of heat communicated from the central and through brochures.
The device, in which 47 people work, directly involved with the most vulnerable people using -over 80 who live alone / AS and with whom not to be, an emergency have suffered as a result of extreme temperatures.
With them tighter to detect possible symptoms protocol applies, including calls and personal visits.
Last summer, the AEMET activated 12 times the yellow level by high temperatures.
From the Telecare service 2,924 operations were performed by different departments in which the recommendations were given to prevent the effects of heat and handled 6,897 calls from the spotlight telecare service in which they reported the recommendations to follow to mitigate the effects of heat.
During that period, they were detected in the municipality of Murcia in February related to the high temperatures cases in which it required the attention of mobile unit without the need to mobilize emergency services.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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