The government delegate in Asturias, Adriana Lastra, and the president of the College of Pharmacists of Asturias, Alfredo Menéndez, have signed the collaboration protocol so that the 454 pharmacies in Asturias can be Violeta Points.
The Violeta Points are an instrument promoted by the Ministry of Equality to involve the whole of society in the fight against male violence. The entities or establishments that are part of this network offer information and accompaniment to victims of gender violence.
The protocol signed with the College of Pharmacists “can save lives,” Lastra said, as pharmacies will be “safe places for women suffering from gender-based violence.” The Government Delegation will offer training to pharmacists and pharmacists to know how to act in cases where they detect a case of gender violence or when a victim goes to the establishment asking for help. Information leaflets will also be distributed to pharmacies with the resources available to the victims and in each of them there will be a badge with a QR code with access to information.
The delegate of the Government thanked the College of Pharmacists for its involvement because “in the fight against gender violence we need the whole society to be involved, and only from unity will we manage to put an end to it”. Lastra has recognized the role of pharmacists who “establish links with their clientele by creating environments of trust” and who with this protocol “will take another step” in their vocation of service.
And he recalled that any establishment or entity can join the network of Violeta Points following the indications that appear on the website of the Ministry of Equality and “from the Government Delegation we offer collaboration”. Lastra recalled that the offices of the SEPE and the headquarters of Muface in Asturias are already Violeta Points and that work is being done so that the headquarters of the Government Delegation is also: “The goal is that all people who work for the public in public administrations know how to inform the victims of gender violence.”
Data Viogén
To date, in the Comprehensive Follow-up System in Cases of Gender Violence - Viogén System - of the State Secretariat for Security of the Ministry of the Interior, 2,109 active cases are registered in Asturias. Of these, two are at extreme risk and 16 at high level.
So far this year, 35 women have been killed by their partner or ex-partner and ten minors have been victims of vicarious violence.