The Urban and Domestic Cleaning Authority (AAUD) will enter with force on Monday to guarantee the continuity of the service we are providing, Moreno said after a meeting with members of the San Miguelito Municipal Council.
Ovil Moreno, administrator of the AAUD, was clear: the AAUD will enter San Miguelito with force on Monday to, in his words, guarantee the continuity of waste collection in that district after the termination of the Revisalud contract, and will be there for as long as necessary.
"When we entered San Miguelito on January 1, we did so without a plan. We entered knowing there was an excess of waste, and thanks to our experience in Panama, we managed to control it in less than 14 days. What we did these days changed the face of San Miguelito," Moreno pointed out.
Moreno recalled that during the first days of the intervention in San Miguelito, he did it with dump trucks, which are no longer necessary today, and in their place, garbage compactor trucks will enter.
When questioned if the AAUD has a plan for the district, Moreno recalled that when they entered San Miguelito on January 1, they did so without a plan, but with the experience acquired in the capital district.
"That there are small illegal dumps ('pataconcitos'), yes, neither the mayor's office nor the council nor the AAUD believe it," he said.
The Comptroller's Office pointed out that two of the three contracts of the San Miguelito Mayor's Office were received on Thursday the 8th at the Municipality's Oversight Office, while the formal entry of the files into the main headquarters took place on January 13.
Moreno was clear and direct, saying that the AAUD will be "for as long as necessary" while guaranteeing the waste collection service and preventing public health problems.
"Now we have a plan, we have a schedule, a frequency, we know the routes, and we have a plan that we are going to present to the council," he stated.
He reiterated that the continuity of the AAUD in the populous district will not affect the work being done in the city of Panama.
He added that he has received calls from about fifty companies who have offered their services, but said he is evaluating the matter, as everything will depend on the equipment they will need.
The AAUD administrator clarified that he has never asked for anything not to be expedited regarding the contracts that Mayor Irma Hernández presented to the Comptroller General of the Republic, but they have not been endorsed.
"That doesn't work that way. If you deliver the contracts on time so they can endorse them on time, they will guarantee it. And if there is a state of special public interest, like the situation in San Miguelito. This is a critical situation, if we hadn't entered, it would have exploded," he assured.
"It's a logistics that changes day by day."
