The Cabildo of Lanzarote, through the Security and Emergency Consortium and with the collaboration of the Lanzarote Health Area, has trained a hundred people in basic life support adapted to the current health crisis scenario with Covid-19, which does not allow practices as common as mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. This campaign, which has the emergency instructor technician Benjamín Nieves, has been carried out for a month in the different beaches of the island's municipalities.
"The objective is that both the lifeguards on the beaches and the personnel of the Red Cross, Civil Protection and REN, Northern Emergency Rescue, master the cardiorespiratory resuscitation techniques and learn to use the defibrillator, because most accidents happen when you least expect it and their resolution depends on what happens in the first minutes, until the arrival of a professional", highlighted the president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo.
For his part, the area councilor, Francisco Javier Aparicio, has shown his satisfaction with these training courses and stresses that "mastering basic first aid knowledge can guarantee a good ending in the event of an unexpected accident and, therefore, the training of our volunteers and workers such as beach lifeguards is one of our priorities".
The Security and Emergency Consortium hopes to finish the campaign in the coming weeks with courses in the municipality of Teguise and on the island of La Graciosa. On the eighth island, the protocol will be carried out by beach staff, Civil Protection and Emerlan.
"Since the beginning of the beach campaign, in phase 2 in which bathing was allowed, there has been impeccable collaboration between city councils, Cabildo and Consortium to successfully complete all the requirements that are being demanded. Thanks to everyone we can say that this island is a model in coordination between institutions", Corujo pointed out.
