Repairing electric grid is top priority in Pinar del Rio – CDP

Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) Recovering from the effects of Hurricane Idalia -recently hit the western Cuba- is focused Wednesday fundamentally on repairing the electric grid as much as its service, and assisting the population immediately, Pinar del Rio authorities assessed.

August 30, 2023
16:56

A television broadcast stated that specialists are presently working 24/7 to repair the grid to provide over 169,000 clients, from the provincial capital to Consolacion del Sur and La Palma municipalities, with power service.

In a meeting of the Provincial Defense Council (CDP), presided over by the Deputy Prime Minister Jorge Luis Perdomo, it was decided to deliver basic staples to the population, for which transportation alternatives are being applied.

The CDP further revealed that the rainfall associated with the meteorological event contributed to increase the filling of reservoirs to 69%.

Likewise, health authorities in Pinar del Rio are currently stepping up efforts to prevent water diseases associated with the consumption of contaminated water (cholera and other diarrheas, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid fever and poliomyelitis), including pharmacies’ sale of 0.1% hypochlorite to chlorinate water.

In addition, the CDP informed that 24 schools were partially and totally damaged.

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