ACCESS TO RIGHTS OF VULNERABLE GROUPS IN THE COVID 19 EMERGENCY - D.M. OF QUITO

Abstract

Through Ministerial Agreement 126-2020 of March 11, 2020, the Minister of Public Health Dr. Catalina Andramuño declared a State of Health Emergency to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In these circumstances, on March 12, 2020, the Mayor of Quito declared a Sanitary Emergency, as a result of which several restrictions were generated, one of them was social distancing. For this reason, Red de Redes with the Council for the Protection of Rights of D.M. Quito, we generate virtual meetings, to learn about and propose activities during the health emergency, as well as surveillance, enforceability and social control mechanisms. The result of this process was the action plan, prepared and approved by members of the networks, with four axes: 1) advocacy, 2) communication, 3) training, and 4) conducting a situational diagnosis and the needs of families and their members in the framework of the health crisis, in relation to this work, academic activities were developed in conjunction with the Barrios de Quito Program of the Central University of Ecuador, the results are exposed and the corresponding conclusions were socialized to the different State agencies.