SANTO DOMINGO.-The Emergency Operations Center (COE) began the second phase of the "Awareness for Life, Christmas and New Year 2024-2025" operation, seeking to prevent incidents and respond to emergencies that citizens traveling to different regions of the country to spend time with family during the holidays may experience.
In this second stage of the operation, which will conclude on Wednesday, January 1st at 6:00 pm, the organization and the institutions that comprise it will again establish a road safety and prevention device on the highway sections of the main roads and highways of the national territory to prevent traffic accidents, alcohol and food poisoning, with the redistribution of 47,422 collaborators from the first response agencies, such as brigade members, doctors, paramedics, military personnel, police officers, search and rescue specialists, volunteers and others.
Additionally, 1,263 assistance posts will be reinstalled, which will be located in areas where the highest number of incidents have been detected in recent operations.
Similarly, 570 ambulances, 5 vehicle extraction trucks, 71 vehicle rescue units, 19 mobile workshops and 3 helicopters, which were provided by the Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Carlos Luciano Díaz Morfa, ERD,
As part of the actions taken to prevent accidents, the National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (Intrant) reported that it has implemented strategic measures to regulate the circulation of cargo vehicles throughout the national territory from Monday, December 30, 2024, starting at 6:00 am, until Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 5:00 am. It was also stipulated that the circulation of heavy vehicles whose owners acquire their permits will always be in the right lane.
The agency's director, Juan Manuel Méndez García, called on citizens to take the security measures that the central government has put in place to continue preventing incidents during the last festivities of the year.
“Prudence began to make a difference during the Christmas holiday, and we expect even more so at the end of this year. These last few hours of 2024 are a good time to reflect and give thanks for life and the blessings received, as well as to set new goals for the coming year,” Méndez García emphasized.
