The government of Santa Fe extended the social, health and educational emergency in the province for six months, through a decree signed by the governor Maximiliano Pullaro last Monday.
The Santa Fe administration decided to extend the emergency – enacted on December 22, 2023 – for a period of six (6) months, by signing decree 2962, which bears the signature of the radical president.
Santa Fe extends the social, health and educational emergency
In this regard, the provincial management indicated that it motivates the present management “sustaining the conditions of deterioration of the social fabric that had justified its dictate, in this sense at the national level the results of the first half of 2024 of the INDEC report referred to “Incidence of poverty and indigence.”
In the text, they argue that these figures reveal that “the percentage of households below the poverty line reached 42.5%, in which 52.9% of the people reside and within this group there are 13 .6% of households below the indigence line, which includes 18.1% of people.”
At the same time, they indicated that this figure represents a jump of 13 points in the number of people in poverty if compared to the first half of the previous year for Greater Rosario, and for Greater Santa Fe the increase of almost 17% in the same period.
Regarding this aspect, the Santa Fe government highlighted that, for the universe of the 31 urban agglomerations of the Permanent Household Survey, Below the poverty line there are 4,319,760 households, which include 15,685,603 people and within that group, 1,378,142 households are below the indigence line, which represents a total of 5,379,588 people.
Specifically, with regard to Santa Fe, the decree indicates that the percentages observed in large urban agglomerations follow the same logic, thus in Greater Rosario poverty reached 37.1% of households and 46.8% of people, while for Greater Santa Fe the figures reach 48.4% and 59.8%, respectively.
“These numbers represent a worsening in the material living conditions of the inhabitants of our province, this figure representing a jump of 13 points in the number of people in poverty when compared to the first half of the previous year for the Greater Rosary, and for Greater Santa Fe the increase of almost 17% in the same period”, the document says.
Tools
For this reason, the Santa Fe management considered “of utmost importance” to provide the Ministries of Equality and Human Development, Education and Health, with the tools of the administrative provisions contained in the aforementioned law.
The goal, they stated, is “to be able to continue with measures to strengthen the jurisdiction’s capabilities, guaranteeing the regularity of social assistance benefits as well as social integration tasks, either directly or in coordination with municipalities and communes.”
Finally, it is clarified that the Executive Branch corroborates that the reasons that motivated that emergency declaration subsist, which is why it considers it appropriate to provide for its extension for a period of six (6) months.
It is worth remembering that last week, Pullaro had already decreed the extension of the Security Emergency in the province for an additional period of 12 months.
Source: Ambito
