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PINAR DEL RÍO.-In order to optimize the information needed to provide or mitigate the impact of disasters, specialists of the province applied for months a new software created for themselves.
Yuniel Rodriguez Bello, one of the authors says that this is a program that has enabled form a large database with all the information 11 Management Centres Risk Reduction (CGRR) Vueltabajo.
“Previously, each compiled their data independently and differently, depending on the computer skills of its staff. Some did in Word, Excel others, others in Access, so that the processing was done slow and cumbersome, “recalls Yuniel, head of CGRR Pinar del Rio municipality of La Palma.
In response, specialists of several such centers decided to make a single application that would standardize the work.
The result is a web software platform, which not only contains in detail the elements to consider in different situations-such disaster as the most vulnerable to fires forest areas, or the number of people to protect flood or penetrations of the sea, it can be found through the network of regional governments.
For any data from a neighboring town, had to request and wait had a chance to send it, which could take several days, but with this new system, CGRR and local authorities, have the ability to be aware in real time, example, the epidemiological situation of the closest territory, and thus take the necessary measures in time.
For Lt. Colonel Noel Lozano, head of the organ of the Civil Defense in Pinar del Rio, the implementation of This tool is very useful, allowing quick work. “Risk management becomes easier. We can assess situations quickly, sitting in front of a machine, unlike before, he had first to look sparse data “.
He further said that the initiative was presented at the last International Congress on Disasters, held in Spain, after which it was decided to extend it to other provinces.
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