Beaches closed; Hospitals readied; roads toll free
Second phase of COE plan starts tomorrow at 2:00 p.m.
SANTO DOMINGO. As each year, the preparatory measures, operations and prohibitions have been set forth by the authorities for the vacationers and travelers this Holy Week, especially starting Thursday and going on until Sunday.
Precisely due to the affluence of people that are waiting of this week in the swimming areas, there are 350 brigades from the Ministry of the Environment that will work cleaning up and collecting the refuse in 50 beaches located in 16 provinces along the coast and the National District, besides 67 swimming places on rivers in 14 provinces.
Even more, from tomorrow and until Sunday, the Holy Week Operational Plan "For your Safety and the Values, 2012" coordinated by the Center for Emergency Operations will use 35,082 persons between brigade personnel, doctors, paramedics, military, police and specialists in search and rescue.
Likewise, the plan calls for 2,512 aid stations at critical points on beaches, swimming places, highways, freeways, and avenues, 123 ambulances, three air units and 75 bicycle-ambulances.
In order to guarantee the highway access to towns in the interior and the cleanliness of the recreation centers, the government has taken measures together with the Ministry of Public Works. Such is the case of the preparation of the highway that communicates Miches with El Seibo, towns that have extensive beaches that people flock to during Easter Week.
At the same time, in Cotui, Public Works took measures to clean up the swimming place under the bridge on the Yuna River, as well as the shoreline of the lake made by the Hatillo dam.
Beginning at noon on Holy Thursday, and until six in the morning on Monday, the use of heavy machinery or large trucks has been prohibited by Public Works. The Ministry also ordered the opening of the toll booths on the Duarte, 6 November, Sanchez Highway, and Las Americas highways starting at noon tomorrow and going until Friday at 6:00 p.m. This will avoid traffic jams at the toll booths on these entry and exits.
In the meantime, the Technical Office of Grand Transportation (OTTT) will carry out a program of inspection of vehicles in order to determine if they are in good enough condition to move people without risks.
The inspection includes checking the tires for pressure and condition, the brake system, lights, load capacity and bodywork.
In order to guarantee citizen safety, some 18,000 agents of the National Police and the Tourist Police will watch out in all parts of the country.
Health Sector
The Ministry of Public Health, through its Operation for Prevention and Attention "Holy Week 2012" will include more than 200 persons, 52 ambulance units on highways, and 10 mobile treatment tents in places with a high concentration of visitors, including highways, beginning tomorrow.
The Minister of Public Health, Bautista Rojas Gomez, explained that this operation seeks to avoid that the population is affected by intoxication from food or alcohol, drowning, or asphyxia from object in the throat; or wounds from knives or guns, as well as from traffic accidents.
In order to open space in the availability of hospital beds, the Dario Contreras trauma center sent non-intensive care patients to their homes, and they are admitting only emergency cases. The same measure is being taken by the Ney Arias Lora Hospital.
Public Health recommends that travelers only use bathrooms or portable johns, avoiding going to the bathroom outdoors. They also recommend eating only well cooked foods and drinks prepared with clean water in order to avoid sicknesses.
Politur
The Army general, Jose Manuel Frias Rodriguez, the director of the Tourist Police (Politur) said that he ordered two thousand new agents to patrol the beaches of Boca Chica, Juan Dolio, Guayacanes and others, with the aim of avoiding problems between bathers. The Politur chief guaranteed that during the holidays everything is going to go nice and quiet on the nation's principle beaches.
"Everything is going to go along normal, we are prepared and with the inclusion of the two thousand new agents that the Chief of Police sent us, we will reinforce the areas of greatest flow of bathers during these days," he said.
Precisely due to the affluence of people that are waiting of this week in the swimming areas, there are 350 brigades from the Ministry of the Environment that will work cleaning up and collecting the refuse in 50 beaches located in 16 provinces along the coast and the National District, besides 67 swimming places on rivers in 14 provinces.
Even more, from tomorrow and until Sunday, the Holy Week Operational Plan "For your Safety and the Values, 2012" coordinated by the Center for Emergency Operations will use 35,082 persons between brigade personnel, doctors, paramedics, military, police and specialists in search and rescue.
Likewise, the plan calls for 2,512 aid stations at critical points on beaches, swimming places, highways, freeways, and avenues, 123 ambulances, three air units and 75 bicycle-ambulances.
In order to guarantee the highway access to towns in the interior and the cleanliness of the recreation centers, the government has taken measures together with the Ministry of Public Works. Such is the case of the preparation of the highway that communicates Miches with El Seibo, towns that have extensive beaches that people flock to during Easter Week.
At the same time, in Cotui, Public Works took measures to clean up the swimming place under the bridge on the Yuna River, as well as the shoreline of the lake made by the Hatillo dam.
Beginning at noon on Holy Thursday, and until six in the morning on Monday, the use of heavy machinery or large trucks has been prohibited by Public Works. The Ministry also ordered the opening of the toll booths on the Duarte, 6 November, Sanchez Highway, and Las Americas highways starting at noon tomorrow and going until Friday at 6:00 p.m. This will avoid traffic jams at the toll booths on these entry and exits.
In the meantime, the Technical Office of Grand Transportation (OTTT) will carry out a program of inspection of vehicles in order to determine if they are in good enough condition to move people without risks.
The inspection includes checking the tires for pressure and condition, the brake system, lights, load capacity and bodywork.
In order to guarantee citizen safety, some 18,000 agents of the National Police and the Tourist Police will watch out in all parts of the country.
Health Sector
The Ministry of Public Health, through its Operation for Prevention and Attention "Holy Week 2012" will include more than 200 persons, 52 ambulance units on highways, and 10 mobile treatment tents in places with a high concentration of visitors, including highways, beginning tomorrow.
The Minister of Public Health, Bautista Rojas Gomez, explained that this operation seeks to avoid that the population is affected by intoxication from food or alcohol, drowning, or asphyxia from object in the throat; or wounds from knives or guns, as well as from traffic accidents.
In order to open space in the availability of hospital beds, the Dario Contreras trauma center sent non-intensive care patients to their homes, and they are admitting only emergency cases. The same measure is being taken by the Ney Arias Lora Hospital.
Public Health recommends that travelers only use bathrooms or portable johns, avoiding going to the bathroom outdoors. They also recommend eating only well cooked foods and drinks prepared with clean water in order to avoid sicknesses.
Politur
The Army general, Jose Manuel Frias Rodriguez, the director of the Tourist Police (Politur) said that he ordered two thousand new agents to patrol the beaches of Boca Chica, Juan Dolio, Guayacanes and others, with the aim of avoiding problems between bathers. The Politur chief guaranteed that during the holidays everything is going to go nice and quiet on the nation's principle beaches.
"Everything is going to go along normal, we are prepared and with the inclusion of the two thousand new agents that the Chief of Police sent us, we will reinforce the areas of greatest flow of bathers during these days," he said.
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