The heavy downpours of the last two weeks have not only led to the closure of roads in the east and west of Medellín, sudden increases of streams, collapses, but also affected even the judicial branch, after water leaked through the roof of the building where the headquarters of the Administrative Court of Antioch.
The situation caused work to be suspended and the public is not being attended to in person, as reported on the digital regional news portal La Chiva Alerta.com.
In this same publication, they consulted with Judge Martha Nury Velásquez, president of the Administrative Tribunal of Antioquia, who pointed out that this problem had been causing inconvenience for some time, so they were intervening on the roof of the place, but with the downpours of the last two weeks the problem worsened.
“The roofs began to intervene and with the rains the entire administrative court was flooded. The secretariat was badly affected, the roofs collapsed and we had to evacuate. It has problems, I don't know about the technicians, I imagine that many because they were suspended without finishing them and some because they were never maintained. It is a work that was left unfinished,” said the jurist.
Meanwhile, in the newspaper El Colombiano they recalled that the headquarters are located in the Nuevo Naranjal building in the center of the capital of Antioquia, which was occupied six years ago, but that since then there have been complaints because, according to the occupants themselves, the works were left unfinished, generating all kinds of discomfort.
The Tribunal is located on the third and fourth floors, they also reported in that regional media, and one constant has been leaks and water leaks, which worsened since a month ago when the waterproofing works began on the terrace.
While the local television news outlet TeleAntioquia indicated that the headquarters will be closed for about a month because part of the ceiling fell, and some 15,000 files are under risk whose proceedings are being carried out in the Tribunal.
The situation also led to local workers having to carry out their work remotely, while the problems of the headquarters were solved.
“Virtual attention and services are being provided, maybe not with the same agility, but users are going to have an attention from the court,” Judge Martha Nury Velásquez said on TeleAntioquia.
The president of the Court also indicated in the local news that due to the insurers themselves it was necessary to suspend face-to-face service.
“The concepts of occupational health said that there are no conditions here to be able to provide the service safely for employees, users, or for files because we are working on a building that is under construction, which was resumed a month ago,” he added.
The rainy season is in check with the capital of Antioquia, on Tuesday there were 18 mass movements, three structural damage to homes and three floods and, according to the Early Warning System of Medellín and Valle de Aburrá, the last event began at noon on Monday the 4th and ended at 9:50 a.m. east tuesday.
“In the early morning there were several situations that affected mobility in the west, there was a collapse that blocked the southern road which is being treated, another collapse occurred on the Santa Elena road that completely blocked the road,” said Luis Fernando Vanegas, commander of Medellín Transito.
As confirmed by the Mayor's Office of Medellín, traffic agents controlled mobility on the road that leads from Buenos Aires to the town of Santa Elena, east of the city, where there was a collapse that blocked the entire road at kilometer 11+200.
Authorities said that the alternative routes for those who need to move to the village are the Medellin - Bogotá highway and Las Palmas Avenue.
The other incident occurred on the road to the district of San Cristóbal, in the Vallejuelos sector, west of Medellín, where several collapses were treated with heavy machinery.
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