translated from Spanish: Seremi Health oversees garbage collection in metropolitan region

The Metropolitan Region Health Seremi, Rosa Oyarce, oversaw in the company of the Deputy Director of the Health Reference Center (CRS) Maipú, Beatriz Bueno, the storage and subsequent removal of waste, after the government and the guilds garbage collectors will come to an agreement and lift the freeze. Oyarce said that “The normal volume of garbage generated in the Metropolitan Region, every day, is 10 thousand tons. Today there are 15 thousand tons of waste on the streets of our region. Although the various municipalities are restarting their collection tasks, it is very difficult for all the garbage to disappear from the streets overnight. Therefore, we must ask the public for patience and to continue to help us keep the waste recyclable and not rot (such as cartons, papers, cans, plastics, etc.) inside the homes, in order to prevent them from accumulating on the sidewalks.” Regarding the normalization of services, the health authority reported that each municipality will restart its garbage collection system, with the usual schedule and that over the day, the city will clear up from rubbish in the streets.” We hope that on Monday the collection will be fully picked up, because there are many municipalities that do not perform the service on weekends. Each municipality is responsible for the grooming and ornateof its communes and they have set priorities to solve this contingency. If neighbors observe accumulated garbage, they must first report with their municipality. If the problem persists, they can enter an OIRS.minsal.cl request to the Waste Area to manage a solution with the local authority,” the authority reported. According to seremi, the greatest risk to the health of the population are enteric diseases and transmitted by vectors (flies, birds, rodents and other insects) that come into contact with garbage and spread infections and diseases to other places, such as can be people’s homes.” That is why we have to hermetically seal organic garbage (material that breaks down and rots, generating bacteria and fungi, like food) hopefully in more than 1 plastic bag, to give it greater resistance if attacked by some animal. Leave them in lidded containers and worry about removing or controlling vectors that might come into contact with waste,” rosa Oyarce recommended.

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