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Santa Fe emergency preparedness for El Niño

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The Santa Fe provincial government has initiated several preventive measures to prepare for the impacts of the El Niño weather phenomenon. In late July, the province launched ROPECA (Registro de Oferentes de Campos, Alimentos y Transporte para Emergencias Agropecuarias), an online platform designed to coordinate agricultural emergency resources. ~~The registry aims to centralize information regarding land, feed, and logistics to improve response times for rural floods, droughts, and wildfires.~~ By mid-August, preparedness efforts expanded into the public health sector. Under the Interministerial Operational Emergency Committee, the government began training health teams across six provincial regions to manage flooding and rising river levels. Health Secretary Andrea Uboldi emphasized the importance of prevention, including surveying anti-venom ~~supplies,~~ supplies and managing medicine reserves, and establishing care processes. Jorge Stettler, Secretary of Integrated Logistics and Network Articulation, noted that the province is working to create risk maps and identify resources across the six health regions. In mid-August, reserves. Simultaneously, the province expanded its strategy to include a massive infrastructure plan aimed at cleaning 933 kilometers of main ~~channels to improve drainage and mitigate flood risks.~~ channels. This ~~initiative~~ includes a 5.8 billion peso investment specifically for 352 kilometers of channels located in the central region. By mid-August, these efforts were part of a broader regional response across South America. In Argentina, ~~provinces~~ the national government activated a real-time monitoring system using satellite data to identify over 5.4 million hectares potentially subject to flooding. The Ministry of Health is coordinating with the Federal Emergency Agency to deploy mobile health patrols and modular hospital units, such as the ERMEH field hospital. Other provinces, including ~~Santa Fe, Chaco,~~ Entre Ríos, ~~Mendoza,~~ Chaco, and ~~La Pampa~~ Mendoza, are ~~coordinating multi-sector responses. These actions include cleaning drainage canals,~~ reinforcing ~~medical stocks such as anti-venom, and training health teams to manage waterborne diseases~~ river defenses and ~~emergency logistics. Regional preparedness has extended to~~ medical stocks. In Uruguay, ~~where~~ the department of Salto is ~~activating emergency committees, and~~ preparing for a potential historic rise in the Uruguay River, with authorities projecting a high probability of flooding that could necessitate the evacuation of up to 1,000 people. In Chile, ~~where~~ heavy rains have already caused fatalities and damage across ten regions, prompting Senapred ~~issued~~ to issue alerts for ~~the Paipote sector~~ residents to avoid ravines in areas like Copiapó due to flash flood and landslide risks.

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