Más Madrid has enabled on its website a form aimed at the citizens of Madrid to report excessive heat episodes being registered in classrooms with the arrival of summer to Public Health.
The measure was presented by the spokesperson for the group in the Assembly, Manuela Bergerot, during the press conference after the Spokespersons' Board this Monday, where she denounced that in the most affluent community in the country there are "thousands of children and adolescents attending class at over 30 degrees."
"It is an absolutely intolerable situation and a sign of how little the Madrid regional government cares about the health of students," she stated, holding the regional Executive responsible for "inaction year after year to solve the problem."
Bergerot contrasted the regional government's refusal to "air-condition schools, primary schools, and high schools" with the actions that, as she highlighted, are being carried out in municipalities where they govern in coalition, such as Rivas or Alcorcón, "with far fewer resources and responsibilities."
The form available on the website details that, if a worker had to perform their job at over 30 degrees, they should file a complaint with the occupational risk prevention service, a tool that does not exist in the case of students.
"It is not only that it is impossible to maintain academic activity at 35 degrees, as happens in many schools in our region, with the consequent impact on educational quality. At those temperatures, the health of Madrid's children is being put at risk," they insist, pointing to dizziness, vomiting, headaches, or fainting as possible effects.