Residents of the Jardim Helena neighborhood, at the extreme of the east of São Paulo, were the target of moral bombs by registering to receive benefit while restructuring the damage caused by flooding in the region. Videos circulating on social networks show at least one of the moments of this Wednesday (5) when agents of the Metropolitan Civil Guard (GCM) launch the explosives against the population, outside the Municipal Elementary School (EMEF) Murures .
Both the Helena Garden and the Pantanal Garden had points that were underwater after being hit by the heavy rains that began at dawn on Saturday (1st). The Municipal Secretariat of Urban Security (SMSU) stated that the pump throws were “the only episode” of this type and tied the agents’ option to an alleged attempt to invas the EMEF Murures.
“The agents were the target of the protesters and acted employing equipment of less potential offensive to control the situation,” the folder wrote in a statement, adding that, when necessary, “rigorously investigates all complaints” and the corporation’s corregedoria applies proper sanctions to agents.
Devastation
The street vendor Inácio da Silva lives with his family in a low area of Jardim Pantanal. He did not have the house destroyed, but sees the surroundings in ruins. Silva points out that, this time, the impact of the rains was greater, without respite, and comments that it has no plumbing of the house to prevent the water from the flood from invading the property.
“Ten houses left to arrive [a água]”He says, who gets around by bicycle to close sales and, with the flood, has to dodge streets and pedal over longer.
“How can you leave the area with $ 50,000, $ 30,000? Where do you buy a property with it? [de construção]”, criticizes seller, given the proposal studied by the team of Mayor Ricardo Nunes as a solution for the inhabitants to exchange the region for another.
Audit
Yesterday afternoon (5), the President of the Court of Auditors of the Municipality of São Paulo (TCMSP), Domingos said, requested the external control audit to survey the actions that are being carried out by the City of São Paulo in the region of Pantanal Garden.
“It’s not just a matter of works. We have to see the issue of works, but there is a social issue, as the city is also facing this, in order to give a money to each person. We will do a slightly more detailed analysis, ”he said.
The survey will have three main axes: values of the budget execution of the City Hall resources in the area of Jardim Pantanal; which actions actually performed; and which social assistance actions are being implemented and planned to serve the affected population. The proposal was approved by all the court counselors.
Contaminated water
Residents of the rain -hit neighborhoods have a report illness after ingesting water from their homes. The janitor Bruno Vieira, from Jardim Pantanal, seeks several times a day and foods and foods and foods and distributed by community leaders. Some of them have been sleeping only three, four hours a night, busy with the aid actions, which start early and end late.
Vieira lives on nozzles, because she is unemployed, and her mother has a susceptible health, after undergoing cancer surgery that now completes a year. She still remains doing chemotherapy sessions.
“They are making donations and, even with stomach pain and fever, I’m going after, walking back and forth. If you go to a health post, it won’t do anything, because what they are giving is Dipyrone, what I have At home. Dipyrone and serum, “the janitor told the report.
“What is saving is this water [a água mineral doada por iniciativa dos líderes da comunidade]. When you put [a da torneira]you can see everything yellow. I went to wash clothes yesterday, in the six pack, everything was yellow. Then I didn’t even wash, “he added.
One of the diseases to which flooded by flooding is exposed is leptospirosis. It is transmitted by skin contact with Leptospira -type bacteria, present in the urine of animals such as rodents. That is, rats are a vector of the disease.
Rescues
The accumulated water level with the rains ranged in the region. Community leader and physical educator Alex Novais, for example, lives in an address where his family’s property was severely reached. He comments that he woke up around 6 am on Saturday, shouting a neighbor who had his house totally flooded.
Recently, the Brazil agency talked to a member of the Civil Defense of the State of São Paulo, who pointed out that the corporation has trained communities leaders to rescue.
“Knowledge will be for you, yes. But, in fact, they like to transfer their responsibility to us, community leader. I will give an example: they come to register to raise inputs and everything. Who takes over the population We are.
Otherwise
THE Brazil agency He asked the municipal health secretariats, social assistance about which guidelines they are giving to the communities and which actions have already been made, but had no return. The city shared today, around 1 pm, a balance of the measures already taken in favor of the residents. The management said that there are currently 57 people welcomed and that, since the weekend, 15,100 lunches, 12,900 dinners and 11,400 morning coffees, 1,300 basic baskets and 15,632 glasses of water, among other items.
“To date 1,344 families have received the emergency card in the amount of R $ 1,000. The Civil Defense is doing active search on the streets affected to eventually register new families for the benefit,” says the city.
“In health care, 1,013 doses of vaccine have been applied to the population, 14 patients have been removed to the Emergency Care Unit (UPA) Jardim Helena and four directed to the Basic Health Unit (UBS) in the region. Psychological to children, 218 patients were treated for revenue exchanges, and 780 hypochlorite bottles were delivered. They are being performed, according to assessment, covid-19 tests, dengue and influenza and rapid tests of syphilis and HIV. “
Asked about the reports of illness after water intake in the regions affected by the floods, Sabesp said it conducts periodic surveys to analyze the supplied water.
“In the Pantanal Garden, these analyzes have proven the quality of the water distributed to the population. The company monitors all stages of the supply system to ensure the quality of distributed water. The results are also sent to the control bodies, within the established rules By legislation, “he argued Sabesp.
