The Immediate Response Health Group before DANA, proposed by the president of the Generalitat Carlos Mazónhas already been activated. In a first meeting held by videoconference, Marciano Gómez, Minister of Health, Mónica García, Minister of Healthand the members of the different teams to work in a coordinated and consensual manner in the assessment and approach to epidemiological risks. This group will meet daily as circumstances dictate.
The Minister conveyed to the Minister, so that she can extend to the rest of the autonomous communities, his gratitude for the demonstrations of solidarity and the offers of aid from other autonomous administrations, and specifically thanked Mónica García for having made the Valencian Community from the ministry’s strategic reserveif necessary, something that is not happening right now.
Assistance in hospital emergencies is provided normally and in municipalities where health centers were affected have been activated extraordinary health care points in collaboration with local administrations.
The Minister of Health informed the Minister of the recommendations which, in terms of Public Health, were transferred to the municipalities affected by the floods caused by DANA. The coordination group with the ministry will be open to the possibility of establishing strategies depending on the needs that may arise, so that any other issue that the Department deems necessary to provide health care that provides the best possible response to the current situation can be evaluated.
During this first meeting of the immediate intervention health group, held by videoconference, were present, in addition to the advisor and the ministerthe regional secretaries of Health and Planning, Information and Digital Transformation, respectively Begoña Comendador and Bernardo Valdivieso; the general director of Public Health, Juan Beltrán; the deputy director of Epidemiology and Health Surveillance and that of Food Safety. On behalf of the Ministry of Health, the Secretary of State for Health, Javier Padilla, was present; the general director of Public Health, Pedro Gullón; and the CAES coordinator.
