Orihuela City residents are 5 years without an Occupational Centre
The Spanish press is calling it ‘the blackest chapter in Oriol history,’ the fact that, following the DANA floods of 2019, the residents of Orihuela City have been without their Occupational Centre for Functional Diversity for 1,830 days as they wait for refurbishment work to be carried out.
The have described as ‘completely unacceptable’ the 40km journeys they are having to make to the centre in Torrevieja or the 7.5 km to the oriolana pedanía of La Aparecida, complaining of the serious deficiencies encountered and the safety risks involved. Users and their families continue to demand a return to Orihuela after this long odyssey.
Perhaps Antonio Trujillo, president of the AMPA of the centre Oriol, and his fellow complainants might now also be sympathetic to the plight of the residents of the Orihuela Costa who have never had such a facility and are seemingly unlikely to see one anytime soon, along with adequate schooling for it’s children, a cultural centre, library, suitable medical facilities, or many other fundamental amenities to which it’s 30,000 people are entitled.
Perhaps Antonio Trujillo and his fellow complainants would like to compare their ‘blackest chapter’ with the deficiencies suffered by residents of the Orihuela Costa for year after year and the derisory inaction from which they too have suffered from successive governments.
