Community and City Council make their resources available to those expelled from their country due to the conflict
With the raging war conflict on Ukrainian territory after the invasion of Russia, the movement of citizens evacuated from the country begins to take shape in reality. The first, especially women and children, have already begun to leave the Ukraine, stopping in Poland, and the movement as refugees through the rest of the European territories will take place in the coming days.
Faced with this situation, both the Community of Madrid and the City Council of the capital have already begun to move to be able to welcome those expelled by the war. The regional government, through the Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, yesterday offered the Ministry of Health 700 beds in the Isabel Zendal Nursing Hospital to alleviate possible care needs that will serve both for regular hospitalizations and as an Intensive Care Unit.
According to the letter sent by the health officer of the Community of Madrid, that number could rise to 1,000 within a week and to these could be added those of the rest of the centers that make up the Madrid Health Service (SERMAS). The Government of the Community of Madrid is aware of the seriousness of the situation that the Ukrainian people are going through and stands in solidarity with them by providing its health infrastructure for whatever they need, they say from Puerta del Sol.
At the same time, the Madrid City Council has also started to work on the search for assistance and reception solutions for refugees from Ukraine. A situation that is not new in the Consistory, which in recent years has already welcomed Colombian expats during the closing of the borders with Venezuela; Syria, with the previous government team during the war in the country; or Afghanistan, after the seizure of power by force by the Taliban.
Precisely the same infrastructure, with prefabricated modules, that was offered to Afghan women and children is what the municipal government has now put on the table for the war conflict in Ukraine. A space that has 80 seats that the corporation would be willing to expand if necessary, as well as leisure spaces such as playgrounds for families.
It is a very welcoming resource, we know that it will never be like home but they come from living a traumatic experience. They are citizens who have fallen asleep one day in peace and have woken up the next with a war and calls for combat, remarked yesterday the deputy mayor, Begoa Villacs, who also confirmed that the City Council, through the Embassy of the country, had already contacted the UNHCR and the Red Cross to put at their disposal orn special fund for this type of emergency that the City Council of the capital has, endowed with 250,000 euros.
As detailed by the leader of Ciudadanos in Madrid during a visit to the Aluche municipal market, this remnant will be distributed according to the needs that these people require in coordination with national and humanitarian aid agencies. They have not told us anything yet about when we will have to start because we are in a very preliminary situationaffirmed Villacs, who explained that for this reason they have not begun to use either the economic resources or the assistance that the City Council of the capital has already made available.
What the deputy mayor valued is Madrid’s ability to deal with this type of situation. This city is distinguished for welcoming those who arrive especially well, as we already did with the families that arrived from Afghanistan, he affirmed before recalling that the situation in the Asian country has not improved excessively in these months, despite the lesser media focus on its situation. . There are still many women who live the real terror of being there.
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