Juan, a neighbor of Aldaia 74 years old and with reduced mobility, has been able to get out of “confinement” after spending almost a month without access to the street due to the passage of the DANA. On October 29, the storm He left the garage of his community flooded and the property without elevator service, however, thanks to a automatic chair loaned by Red Cross Mislata, Now he has been able to return to the street.
The City Council and the NGO have coordinated to provide this essential service for mental health for the elderly and people with reduced mobilitywith the acquisition of automatic chairs so that they can leave the house. According to the Consistory, it was almost 11:00 a.m. this Thursday when Juan saw the light of day from his doorway on Calle Mayor.
As it passed through this town, the DANA destroyed infrastructure, businesses, cars and homes, many of them today with the disabled elevator. This is the case of Juan’s farm. Twenty-three days later, the garages and elevator pit are still full of mud. “It’s the whiting that bites its tail,” explains the mayor, Guillermo Luján.
Disabled elevators and confined seniors
Faced with this situation, the first mayor calls for insurance companies to join forces and send cranes to Aldaia to empty the more than 120 garages who have this same problem. In them, “the thousands of vehicles have not yet been removed.” “You cannot advance in cleaning, which represents a problem of health public, with the appearance of mold and insects, and this forces the confinement of elderly people, people with reduced mobility and women with high-risk pregnancies, as the elevators in their communities are unusable,” he assured.
Luján has been demanding that insurers “not look the other way” as he warns that “otherwise this problem can last foreverwith a serious and direct impact on the physical and mental health of citizens.” In the case of Juan, his daughter indicates that her father is aware of what happened “because he spends the day listening to the radio.” However, this aldaiero neighbor does not understand that, unlike the pandemic“he is the only one who can’t leave the house and he has a very bad time.”
While the two automatic chairs that the local organization has acquired arrive to take down the inmates who wish to do so, the Mislata Red Cross has lent this element to Aldaia and has allowed Juan was able to go to the day center again. The mayor of the town, who has gone to Juan’s home to accompany him in returning to his daily routine, informs the citizens that they can make use of this temporary service: “If anyone else finds themselves in this situation, do not hesitate to contact the City Council’s social services.”