Nov
11
2020

The Victims Unit announce the opening of new service points

The director of the entity assured that a review is being carried out with the local administrations to open the new points under rigorous biosecurity measures. One in Atlántico and another in Cauca are among those planned.

Bogotá, D.C.Bogotá, D.C.

The director of the Unit for Comprehensive Attention and Reparation to Victims, Ramón Alberto Rodríguez Andrade, announced that new points will be opened to attend to the victims of conflict in various areas of the national territory.

"In Atlántico we are carrying out the exercise to open a new point, we are also checking in Inzá, in the department of Cauca," Rodríguez noted.

"The requests come from the municipal administrations and with them we seek to guarantee us physical space, connectivity, a decent place to attend to the victims", ​​added the official.

The director said that together with the Humanitarian Social Management Directorate of the entity the study is being carried out "to see the relevance of the opening of these points in different parts of the country".

"With this review we seek to be places that allow victims to access information, access services and that we are improving channels every day, but mainly this service channel in person", he said.

At present, the Victims Unit has 222 service points and 34 regional centers. The regional points and centers are an inter-institutional articulation strategy at the national and territorial level that aims to attend, guide, refer, accompany and monitor victims so that they can access the state offer, in the exercise of their rights to truth, justice and comprehensive reparation.

They work in a permanent space that brings together the institutional offer and are gradually implemented in the municipalities where the greatest number of victims attend, considering the specific needs of each territory, as well as the existing programs, strategies and infrastructure.

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