By Cathy Elelman • Published: 16 Apr 2020 • 11:45
COMMUNICATION: The tablets allow patients to chat to their nearest and dearest via videoconference. CREDIT: Almeria Junta Facebook @AlmeriaJunta
DONATED tablets are keeping quarantined coronavirus patients in Almeria’s hospitals in touch with their loved ones. The Junta de Andalucia’s Government Delegation in the province has given out the 20 tablets supplied by the El Ejido branch of the El Cortes department store chain to the Torrecardenas in Huercal-Overa, the Torrecardenas and the El Toyo in Almeria City and the Poniente in El Ejido. Equipped with 3G technology, the devices allow patients to chat to their nearest and dearest via videoconference. Junta provincial government delegate Maribel Sanchez Torregrosa thanked El Corte Ingles for a gesture which she said would make the patients’ hospital stays easier.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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