At the session of the State Council for Civil Protection, a preliminary diagnosis of the damage caused by torrential rains in the municipality of Carmen was presented. Governor Carlos Miguel Aysa González announced that more support for the affected Carmelite families is on the way through the DIF State System and the Ministry of Health will implement, in coordination with the municipal authorities, an emerging fumigation program against dengue and chikungunya.
The governor held in this city, accompanied by the Secretary General of the Government, Pedro Armentía López, the permanent session of the council, following up on the recommendation given by the health authorities not to do it in the municipalities affected by the tropical storm Cristóbal, as a measure preventive by COVID-19.
Aysa González assured that his government will continue to work as a single team to meet the needs of families and so that they can overcome the problems they face. «We are promptly attending to the contingency and we are going to give the people of Carmen all the necessary support so that normalcy will soon be restored,» he said.
He informed that tomorrow his wife Victoria Damas de Aysa, president of the DIF State System, will visit Aguacatal to provide more support to the affected families and asked the health authorities to implement a coordination plan with the city council and other entities, such as the Security Secretariat Public and National Guard, to immediately start the fumigation work.
He commented that in order to help the field, he has agreed with the federal Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Víctor Villalobos Arámbula, to start the assessment of the accident and attend to the steps taken on the payment of insurance and the implementation of programs to recover crops, among other actions .
The Secretary of Civil Protection, Edgar Hernández Hernández, mentioned that the municipality of Carmen presented the greatest damage in the river region, specifically in Aguacatal and surrounding communities; in the Atasta Peninsula, Ciudad del Carmen and Sabancuy the water levels have already decreased significantly, and work continues on the evacuation of water, cleaning of houses and sanitation of the same.
In his opportunity, the Carmelite mayor, Oscar Rosas González, during the presentation of the preliminary diagnosis, commented that the main damages occurred in houses, bridges, highways, streets, harvesting roads, public lighting, distribution pipelines and potable water conduction, catchment pots, deep wells, crops and livestock.
He recognized the support that the state president has given to the municipality since the effects of the tropical storm began to be felt and after its passage, he has timely sent aid to serve the population.
Moments later, the director of the SCT Campeche center, Armando Araiza Armenta, recounted the deterioration of the federal toll-free highway network, and in this regard stated that only four points had cuts in the tracks; to date in two of them circulation has been restored to one hundred percent and in the others you can only travel on one lane.
He said that in general, the damages consisted of landslides, runoff on the pavement, landslides, sheets of water and waterlogging.
He commented that support was also provided to provisionally reestablish the passage in sections of the supply network in the municipalities of Champotón, Carmen, Calakmul, Candelaria and Escárcega.
The delegate of the National Water Commission (Conagua), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Todd, reported on the operations carried out to purify and supply water, as well as to evict those that remain stagnant in the communities of Aguacatal, Dzibalchén, Los Laureles, Vicente Guerrero, Suc-Tuc and Villamadero. He added that the aid actions provided by the agency’s staff have already ended in the city of Escárcega; Pueblo Nuevo, Campeche and Santa Rita, Hopelchén.
As for the levels of the rivers, he noted that Candelaria and Palizada are below their ordinary maximums, and that of Champotón is one meter 96 centimeters above its level of ordinary maximum waters, but it is expected that from the next week tend to go down, which will help normalize the situation.
Speaking, the Secretary of Health, José Luis González Pinzón, explained that the rains have led to the proliferation of flies, so to prevent cases of dengue and chikungunya, a fumigation program will be started in colonies on the island where there are the greatest risks.
