The city has brought to a familiar face to work as an advisor in leading environment, health and safety efforts after a tornado.
Scheduled Tribes. Louis – St. Louis is expanding its tornado relief to focus on prioritizing health concerns. The doctors who help in navigating the region during the Covid-19 epidemic are leading the charge. Volunteers are also providing care in the storm area.
St. Louis Nurse Amber Villarial said the devastation outside his front door said, “The roof was out. It was all blown out.”
This is why she felt forced to serve as a volunteer in recovery efforts.
“There are people who are coming and telling me that there is a black mold in their house now, so the things we are giving to people, one of them is the big buckets of bleach and sponge, which are able to clean the bleach, but also have a secondary effect, so you want to make sure that you are wearing a mask to protect yourself from chemicals,” he said.
Villarial 4Theville, Invest STL and Dream Builders are joining with 4 equity – all are engaged to help their fellow neighbors.
“Stay hydrated to prevent dehydration … Wearing masks in these environments. Many buildings have come down which were previously asbestos,” she said.
Community groups have created an emergency hub in Whitier Street and Martin Luther King Drive, where volunteers can stay between 9 am and 5 pm this week, serving 3,000 families with cleanliness and cleanliness supply, food and water and construction materials.
It is now as the city of St. Louis to help navigate the environment, health and safety issues. Alexander is partnership with Garza. Garza helped lead the region's epidemic response.
“If you are outside, you know, working on cleaning the debris and some cuts, scraps, bumps and injuries that you do not need to go to the emergency department, that we can take care of it with emergency medical services,” he said.
He is working to identify those in storm-affected areas with older conditions to ensure access to care.
“So if you are talking about people with diabetes, heart conditions, asthma, emphysema, where they can regain their medicines, where they can be seen by a primary care provider, then such things so that their condition is not accelerated … especially the ramp is being up, and if people do not have enough shelter, then it is not a sufficient shelter.
