Due to the Christmas and New Year holidays, the Social Security Fund declared, in all its facilities nationwide, an Institutional Green Alert, which begins at 12:00 noon this Tuesday, December 24, and will run until 7:00 am on Thursday, December 26.
Subsequently, for the end of the year holidays it is reactivated again, from 12:00 noon on December 31 to 7:00 in the morning on January 2, 2025.
Dr. Carlos Cerrud, head of the National Department of Emergency Management, Disaster and Patient Transfer, reported that the CSS will have a workforce of more than 1,200 people, including nurses, emergency medical technicians, stretcher bearers, bus drivers. ambulances, doctors, laboratory technicians and emergency room personnel.
In addition, citizens are called to maintain self-care of their health, avoid eating poorly prepared foods, avoid drinking alcoholic beverages, have a designated driver, monitor children when going to beaches and rivers, and be alert. and do not promote or allow the use of fireworks by minors, since it is one of the causes that causes the most emergencies.
“First-degree and second-degree burns, in the case of children, finger amputations due to misuse of fireworks, food poisoning and alcohol abuse, are some of the most frequently reported injuries during this Christmas season and at the end of the year,” emphasized Dr. Cerrud.
