The mayor of Chiva, Amparo Fort, asked for water, food, fuel and more medical services, “including a psychologist”, to help a population that has already lost seven neighbors and is looking for an unconfirmed number of missing people. Fort explained that the population is still “without water, without electricity and without communication of any kind”, so the most urgent thing is “food and drinking water”, although “medical services are also starting to be necessary, including a psychologist. He stressed that to restore the supply of water and electricity it is essential to repair the La Solana well and added that “All the bridges, streets and roads have disappeared”.
Food that continues to arrive and be organized in the municipal facilities of Chiva. Of course, they are rationed: only two bottles per neighbor. Some, like Rosa, arrive very nervous: “There are eight of us at my daughter’s house. Can you come and help her?” Even if what also breathes is indignation: “It’s just that it looks like a third world countryeveryone is lining up. I work in a retirement home and the elderly people there eat yogurt. “Just in the morning, because there was a little light, I drank a glass of warm milk.”
“We need clean water and we need food. When we talk about food, we talk about babies and centenarians. We need food for all of them,” said another resident of Chiva. Two residents of Benetusser also feel helpless looking for food for their 92-year-old mother: “My mother has a sick heart, she has already suffered two heart attacks, and “He has anxiety attacks because he doesn’t understand anything.” They just hope the help doesn’t stop so this nightmare becomes a little less harsh.
