Diris Lima South of the Ministry of Health organizes a network of healthy municipalities

Director DIRIS South Limaothers Jaime Valderramahosted the Healthy Municipalities of the South desktop, a dialogue space that brought together health officials and managers from nine beach districts in our jurisdiction to articulate action for the benefit of their neighbors.

In this first meeting, the integral plan healthy summer, which aims to guarantee the health safety of swimmers on 43 beaches in the south of Lima. The municipal authorities also received the necessary recommendations on caring for the health of visitors during the pandemic. COVID-19.

For his part, he Dr. Valderrama emphasized the importance of this kind of action, which allows you to directly contact the municipalities and learn about their problems, “implementing the policy of our Minister of Health, Dr. Rosa Gutierrezwe must change our mind and work with you on health promotion issues, sending information to both local government and neighbors,” he said.

As a result of the working table, the Healthy Municipalities Network was formed, which will allow the management of health activities with local governments over the next four years of city administration.

The situation in Ancona on the sanitary quality of the beaches

In an interview with RPP News, Mayor anconSamuel Daza, accused the General Directorate of Environmental Health (Digesa) of not providing clear information on sanitary quality Beaches their area after the oil spill that occurred in January 2022.

“On December 14, Digesa released a statement saying that three beaches are in an ‘unaffected’ state, but when we go to the Healthy Summer app, we are surprised that three beaches say ‘unhealthy’.

There is an inconsistency in Digesa’s own statement that puts us against the neighbors,” he explained. In this sense, he demanded that the relevant government authorities speak “urgently” about the exact conditions in which he is at sea in order to protect the health of people who come to the beaches.

“We are calling on all relevant authorities to address the issue of oil spill in ancon. We had over 30,000 visitors last weekend, which exceeded our operational capacity to keep order and cleanliness, and this creates chaos for us, ”said Samuel Daza, specifying that the beaches of Ancona are still closed due to pollution.