The teleassistance service of the Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC) remotely attended to two baby deliveries in June, one of them in an ambulance in Lanzarote and the other in a traffic jam on the TF-5, the northern highway of Tenerife where traffic jams are almost daily.
In the case of Lanzarote, teleassistance for childbirth was carried out on June 9 at four in the morning, when 112 received a call to help a 37-year-old woman with a full-term pregnancy in the municipality of Tías.
A basic life support ambulance from the SUC was dispatched to the scene because the medicalized one was on another service, and its personnel reported upon arrival that the woman had begun the expulsive stage of the baby.
The coordinating nurse of the 112 room gave the necessary instructions to the ambulance personnel to assist with the delivery and childbirth.
The woman gave birth to a boy in the basic life support ambulance while they were heading towards the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital in Arrecife.
It was a birth without complications, and both the mother and the newborn were in good condition and were admitted to the hospital.
A birth in a traffic jam
According to the Ministry of Health this Thursday, it was on the morning of June 23 when the coordinating doctor of the SUC answered the call of a couple who were heading to the hospital, but they were surprised by a traffic jam on the TF-5, near Tacoronte.
The woman, pregnant at term, was in labor and in full expulsive process.
The SUC doctor stayed on the phone following the evolution of the moment of delivery and childbirth, instructed the mother to clean the baby's head and place it on her chest, skin to skin, and keep it warm.
Meanwhile, a medicalized ambulance from the SUC, activated from the operations room, headed to the meeting point with the vehicle, near the Tenerife Norte airport, about six kilometers from Tacoronte.
The ambulance personnel took charge of the assistance of the mother and the newborn and transferred them to the hospital, where they were admitted in good general condition.
