The authorities are carrying out mitigation work and preparing aid to care for those affected.
A partial balance of your dead and Nearly 70,000 people have been affected by the rains in Antioquia and part of Chocó, according to reports from authorities and relief organizations that have responded to more than 214 emergencies.
“We already have all the frameworks for action in the 125 municipalities in Antioquia. This framework of action allows us to anticipate any risk.and that will eventually allow us not only to monitor but to intervene with all the inter-institutional capacities that exist in the department of Antioquia in favor of all Antioquia residents,” said the director of Dagran, Carlos Ríos Puerta.
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In the municipality of Venice, southwestern Antioquia, the rainfall has generated concern among residents about the state of the main road. There is a loss of banking in ‘El Cinco’.
Leonardo Parra, Venice Risk Management coordinator, detailed the measures that are being implemented: “All immediate interventions are being carried out with the Infrastructure Secretariat of the Government of Antioquia and the San Bernardo Concession, carrying out the evaluation of the road to make immediate intervention,” he explained.
Besides, The entire Quibdó – Medellín Transversal is closed at kilometer 48, a sector known as 15. INVIAS personnel are carrying out removal, recovery and expansion work on the road.
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Regarding this situation, the transport union insists that Chocó’s roads urgently require the resources promised by President Gustavo Petrowho they say has not kept his promises to invest in the improvement of this road.
“500 billion pesos will be transferred from ANI to INVIAS so that not only the end of the work can be completed and it will be completed this yearbut, what has not been done since the work began, which is work on securing slopes that allows safety on the road“, Petro said at the time.
It is worth mentioning that The subregions of Urabá, the West and Southwest of Antioquia are the most affected in terms of rainfall. The Government of Antioquia supports the Municipal Disaster Risk Management Councils complementary and subsidiary through the delivery of humanitarian aid that benefits more than 1,500 families.
