Considering that since March 13, 2020, the State of Alarm entered into force in the National Gazette throughout the Venezuelan territory and the mask remains as a mandatory use to prevent contagion, the municipal government legislated said ordinance as a plan of awareness and health protection within the town, which in almost a year of its approval has turned out to be the legal tool that governs the inhabitants of the area in the face of the pandemic.
However, given the constant updates on vaccination, scientific findings, variants and mortality rates, the legal management of the Human Capital Commission of the Municipal Council of Chacao with the support of Civil Protection, Chacao Health and specialists, will be in charge to apply the new regulations and updates in this area.
On the other hand, according to several specialists, a second silent pandemic has developed that alters mental health, which feeds depression, anxiety, among other mental conditions. Under this circumstance, in favor of the mental health of the residents and children in the schools of the Municipality, workshops will continue to be implemented to face this new normality with the psychiatrist and professor at the Central University of Venezuela, Jan Costa, who accompanied us during in 2021 giving mental health workshops in the different areas of the municipality.
In this order of ideas, González Florez stated: “In Chacao we not only reach people on the street, we also go to buildings, popular areas, urbanizations and this new year we will reach schools because it is an issue that the earlier attack, the fewer victims of this second silent pandemic we will have. We must also teach the little ones how to take care of themselves and correctly prevent Covid-19 “.
Likewise, Mayor Gustavo Duque expressed that the ordinance that regulates the protection measures once morest Covid-19 in the Chacao municipality will continue to grow and be updated in 2022, “because we want our municipality to advance at the level of physical health, mental health and health care necessary to live in this new normality that we have to assume”.
These mental health micro-workshops seek to add more people every day to be responsible for themselves and at the same time deliver “tools” and basic knowledge that help save lives and prevent psychological deterioration.
Dr. Costa stressed that some of the topics to be discussed in this new stage of the workshops will be: individual approach, family approach (systemic constructivist), therapeutic vision of the symptom (depression, anxiety, panic), types of therapy: individual, couple , family and generalities of pharmacotherapy.
Similarly, the mayor highlights the wonderful work done by each of the health workers in the municipality who, with their dedication, have managed to be a highly trained team to deal with this Covid-19 pandemic since its inception. Likewise, it urges to follow their social networks to be attentive to this type of activities and those condominium boards or schools that wish to carry out said workshops in their facilities must request it by email: [email protected].
