Some 32,500 will take part in Christmas operation
COE announces its plan "Safe Christmas for Values 2014"
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SANTO DOMINGO. Starting next Wednesday at 2:00 in the afternoon, 32,455 persons will go into the streets of the country as part of the operation plan for Christmas "safe Christmas for the Values 2014 2015," which is aimed at preserving lives and property during the festivities of December and New Years.
Aid workers, doctors, paramedics, military and police personnel, search and rescue specialists, and more than 8000 volunteers, make up the response team for emergencies which this year will support the National Emergency Commission during their usual year-end operation.
The director for the Center of Emergency Operations (COE), Juan Manuel Mendez Garcia, related how as part of the plan, the assistance agencies prepared 1502 aid stations, located in those places that were identified as most critical. They will also distribute 126 ambulances, 3 helicopters, and 90 immediate response units and four vehicular rescue units on highways and strategic points. They also set up 9 command-and-control centers in different regions.
The operation plan ends its first stage on Thursday 25 December at 6:00 in the afternoon. The 2nd phase begins on Tuesday, 30 December at 2:00 p.m., and will end on Thursday, 1 January 2015 at 6:00 p.m. The formal launch will be done next Tuesday at 11:00 a.m.
Hector Quezada, the national director for Emergencies and Disasters for the Ministry of Public Health, said that this entity assigned sufficient ambulances to transfer the persons who had problems during the festivities and that might come for health services at the hospitals that were closed for remodeling. At the same time he requested the reinforcement of security in the emergency areas of the different hospitals, due to the increase of patients during these festive days.
A call for prudence
The Civil Defense Director, Rafael Luna Pichirilo, called on citizens to be prudent and moderate and not to drive if they have taken alcoholic beverages. "It is important to preserve one's life, but one has to give himself the chance in order to preserve the lives of others," he commented.
Luna Pichirilo emphasized the effective coordination which exists between the different agencies that will carry out the operation, among which the Ministry of the Presidency and the Administrative Ministry for the Presidency stand out, together with the Interior and Police, Public Health, the Social Plan, the 911 Emergency System, the Economic Kitchens, the National Police, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET), the Metropolitan Office of Bus Service (OMSA), the Red Cross, the Fire Department and others. The AMET commander, Rafael Tejada Baldera, indicated that as part of the safety measures they have taken control of the highways, and toll plazas in order to avoid drivers both of heavy vehicles as well is motorcycles committing traffic violations during these days. These two groups of vehicles are the principle cause of traffic accidents in the Dominican Republic.
Prohibition
The Directorate General of Ground Transportation, of the Ministry of Public Works announced the prohibition of heavy vehicles on the roads of the country starting Wednesday, 24 December at 12:00 noon and lasting until Thursday, 25 December at 10:00 at night. The same prohibition is established for 31 December until 1 January during the same hours. Traffic accidents caused 54 deaths during the Christmas operation last year.
Aid workers, doctors, paramedics, military and police personnel, search and rescue specialists, and more than 8000 volunteers, make up the response team for emergencies which this year will support the National Emergency Commission during their usual year-end operation.
The director for the Center of Emergency Operations (COE), Juan Manuel Mendez Garcia, related how as part of the plan, the assistance agencies prepared 1502 aid stations, located in those places that were identified as most critical. They will also distribute 126 ambulances, 3 helicopters, and 90 immediate response units and four vehicular rescue units on highways and strategic points. They also set up 9 command-and-control centers in different regions.
The operation plan ends its first stage on Thursday 25 December at 6:00 in the afternoon. The 2nd phase begins on Tuesday, 30 December at 2:00 p.m., and will end on Thursday, 1 January 2015 at 6:00 p.m. The formal launch will be done next Tuesday at 11:00 a.m.
Hector Quezada, the national director for Emergencies and Disasters for the Ministry of Public Health, said that this entity assigned sufficient ambulances to transfer the persons who had problems during the festivities and that might come for health services at the hospitals that were closed for remodeling. At the same time he requested the reinforcement of security in the emergency areas of the different hospitals, due to the increase of patients during these festive days.
A call for prudence
The Civil Defense Director, Rafael Luna Pichirilo, called on citizens to be prudent and moderate and not to drive if they have taken alcoholic beverages. "It is important to preserve one's life, but one has to give himself the chance in order to preserve the lives of others," he commented.
Luna Pichirilo emphasized the effective coordination which exists between the different agencies that will carry out the operation, among which the Ministry of the Presidency and the Administrative Ministry for the Presidency stand out, together with the Interior and Police, Public Health, the Social Plan, the 911 Emergency System, the Economic Kitchens, the National Police, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET), the Metropolitan Office of Bus Service (OMSA), the Red Cross, the Fire Department and others. The AMET commander, Rafael Tejada Baldera, indicated that as part of the safety measures they have taken control of the highways, and toll plazas in order to avoid drivers both of heavy vehicles as well is motorcycles committing traffic violations during these days. These two groups of vehicles are the principle cause of traffic accidents in the Dominican Republic.
Prohibition
The Directorate General of Ground Transportation, of the Ministry of Public Works announced the prohibition of heavy vehicles on the roads of the country starting Wednesday, 24 December at 12:00 noon and lasting until Thursday, 25 December at 10:00 at night. The same prohibition is established for 31 December until 1 January during the same hours. Traffic accidents caused 54 deaths during the Christmas operation last year.
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