Increasing the preparation of people and entities to reduce damages in the event of disasters of sanitary, technological, or natural origin is the main objective of the Meteoro Exercise 2023, which takes place this weekend.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- During the first day, the management and command bodies trained in specifying the vulnerability reduction documents, and the organizations that carry out surveillance and monitoring actions presented information related to their activity.
Alexei Moreno Borges, deputy technical director of the Provincial Meteorology Center, informed that the coming hurricane season will have a behavior between normal and little active, with the possible formation of about 11 tropical phenomena, of which five can become hurricanes.
Regarding the reservoirs in Las Tunas territory, Mirtha García Rojas, the delegate of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INRH), said that are at 22 percent of their total filling capacity and t those that supply water to the population with the worst situation are Copo del Chato and Juan Sáez, from the municipality of Jesús Menéndez.
Dr. Viviana Gutiérrez Rodríguez, the Director of Health, referred to the incidence of COVID-19 disease and stressed that the province is one of the three most affected in the country. Therefore, she suggested maintaining prevention measures, such as the isolation of patients and the use of the facemask in closed places.
The president of the Defense Council, Manuel Pérez Gallego, said that we should not wait for the days of the Meteoro Exercise to carry out systematic pruning of branches or trees, one of the main proposals of the population due to the danger they represent for houses and electrical and telephone lines.
He also referred to the cleaning of drains and sewers, which cannot be limited to the hurricane season either to avoid flooding in the most vulnerable areas. By the way, he called for the protection of personal and state properties, much more so in the difficult economic context that Cuba is going through.
This Sunday, the collection of solid waste, cleaning of ditches and canals, the elimination of micro-dumps, and the securing of roofs are planned, among other actions that prevent economic losses and harm to people. A practical exercise of danger zoning will be held in Cuba’s Oil Union distribution company (CUPET), which will end with the hypothetical mass reception of the wounded at Dr. Ernesto Guevara General Teaching Hospital.
