In order to improve care for victims in the capital of Antioquia, a new point of care for victims was opened in which 1,300 people are attended weekly.

In coordination with the Mayor's Office of Medellín, on April 9, the new victim assistance center was inaugurated, located in the Juanes de la Paz Park north of the city.

Wilson Córdoba, director of Victims Unit in Antioquia, who accompanied this inauguration said that "this is a space that dignifies the victims, precisely today that we are honoring the memory and in solidarity with the victims who have suffered unfortunate events. the institutions participate in the symbolic and memory acts in order to give them the recognition and support to overcome the gap that the conflict left them".

The official also said that "at the points of care we have the right personnel to guide and meet the needs of the population affected by the conflict. After the assessment and the inclusion of these in the Single Victims Registry, they enter the care and repair route, passing through psychosocial care and ending with administrative compensation".

For Rosa Elvira Acevedo, one of the victims who visited today the new point of attention of Juanes de la Paz, victim of displacement of the municipality of Remedios and who also lost her husband and son in the conflict said that " the psychological help that the Victims Unit has given me has helped me a lot, with it I recovered from all the pain and fears that violence caused me in that municipality, today I live in Medellín a little calmer ".

The opening ceremony included an itinerant exhibition at the city's attention points by the sculptor Maurizio Cortez, plastic artist of the 13th district of this city, who presented 11 sculptures in barbed wire as a tribute to the resistance of victims. "Catharsis, is the name of the work, is an exhibition that speaks of the violence that Colombia has experienced in the last 50 years. The element in which they are made is barbed wire, an element that is used in war, as a confinement, that's why I wanted to transform it by putting color on them. It is about gestures, human faces of absence, of confinement, of pain, and that they are speaking to society as a living memory of it in order to allow us to remember the facts and that these do not happen again”, said the artist.

With six points of attention to victims in Medellín, this year the Unit has served 16,664 people in its integral reparation process. Between 2012 and 2019, the National Government has invested through the Victims Unit resources for 11 billion pesos, of these 2.6 billion pesos in Antioquia for individual reparation, humanitarian and emergency aid, social and community infrastructure projects, psychosocial attention for emotional recovery and economic compensation.