AUSOL COLLABORATES WITH THE ARMY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CORONAVIRUS

Ausol has collaborated during the state of alarm decreed by the Government in the face of the COVID-19 crisis with the “Balmis Operation”, organized by the Army to deal with the pandemic. Autopista del Sol has waived tolls for buses provided by the transport company ALSA to transport military personnel, civilians, patients infected with the virus, and health material.

This concession has facilitated the transit through the tolls of the Costa del Sol Highway so that patients, as well as health personnel and material, could reach the most diverse places and health care facilities as soon as possible to fight against the pandemic caused by Covid-19.

The mission of the Armed Forces in this health crisis has been named the ‘Balmis Operation’, in homage to the humanitarian expedition led by Francisco Javier Balmis between 1803 and 1806, a military doctor who took the smallpox vaccine to the territories of the Spanish Empire in America and the Philippines to end the infant mortality that the virus was causing in the overseas territories.

This agreement highlights Ausol’s commitment to society in general and to the Army in particular and is a recognition of the work that the Armed Forces are carrying out in this crisis situation.

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