Following the catastrophe lived in Bahía Blanca, the province of Buenos Aires works on a Comprehensive Assistance and Reconstruction Plan which will be announced in the next few days by Governor Axel Kicillof.
The situation in Bahía Blanca is calamity. Official statistics count, provisionally, 16 dead, 100 missing and more than 1,450 evacuated. They also seek intensity two Lost girls.
In that context, the strong deterioration suffered by the Bahian infrastructuretogether with the appliances and furniture of thousands of homes, means of transport, shops and work tools.
So much so that the mayor of the municipality, Federico Subielleshe said that Bahía Blanca’s reconstruction will imply around $ 400,000 millionof which $ 10,000 million They were already approved and turned to the jurisdiction, according to the chief of cabinet on Monday, Guillermo Francos.
Work in a comprehensive plan
The province of Buenos Aires He will also contribute his own. The Buenos Aires Minister of Government, Carlos Biancosaid in radio statements that they are preparing “a comprehensive plan to provide assistance that neighbors need ”.
Within that framework, Bianco also said that special fund lines are being negotiated for national catastrophes. “Rebuilding the Penna Hospital will only cost $ 22 billionmore funds of the $ 10 billion granted by the National Government will be needed, ”he said.
Before the consultation of whether this comprehensive strategy contemplates purchases of basic supplies or work team for affected citizens, From the province they replied that, among the strategies at the table, a subsidized credit line is analyzed for “housing refaction and equipment acquisition“Through Province Bank.
The technical details – interest, amount destined to the partial subsidy of the line, requirements to access and payment term – are being evaluated at this time, while the end of the situation of the status of situation in Bahía Blanca. Nor are actions rule out with the DNI account to motorize the consumption of basic elements by the bahienses.
Usually, These types of decisions are taken after the weekly board meeting of the Bank Provincewhich is held on Thursdays. However, given the exceptional case, technical teams could be advanced to specify an ad in this sense as soon as possible. Nothing is discarded.
On the other hand, Bianco graph that “we cannot know how long it will take when the neighborhoods recover normality, It will take a long time ”and expanded:”65% of the city already recovered electricity But there are many areas where you have to finish the water drain work with the Achique pump. ”
Breading possibilities and special fund
In turn, in the province they do not deny the possibility to resume in the Buenos Aires Legislature the project of indebtedness that Kicillof had raised in December to face obligations for US $ 1,200 millionwith the aggregate of a Special Fund For assistance to municipalities, in this case that of Bahía Blanca.
During an act in the Buenos Aires town of Castelli, Kicillof again differentiated from Milei ensuring that he received called “practically from all the governors of all forces.” “I know it was an unprecedented catastrophe, that mobilizes and reflects, but also demonstrates a difference in conception and the type of society we want to build”, He concluded during the inauguration of a school.
Source: Ambito
