The San Bartolomé City Council continues with the installation of defibrillators (AED) in municipal facilities, thus becoming a cardioprotected municipality.
The mayor, Isidro Pérez, points out that "having defibrillators in municipal facilities is vital to attend to cardiac arrest emergencies since their use in the first minutes can save lives," says Pérez.
He also recalls that "the installation of this tool adds to other actions that are already being carried out by the City Council with the aim of making San Bartolomé a heart-healthy municipality."
On this occasion, "automatic external defibrillators have been placed in the Playa Honda Football Field and in the senior centers of Playa Honda and San Bartolomé. These are added to those already installed on another occasion in the Ajei, Alcalde Alexis Tejera Lemes and Playa Honda Primary Education centers, as well as in the facilities and vehicles of Civil Protection and Local Police, which makes them mobile units that can move to any point," they point out from the Consistory.
Semi-automatic defibrillators are installed in public spaces and municipal dependencies to be used in case a citizen suffers a cardiac arrest. In general, they are installed in sports buildings, senior centers or spaces where a large number of people gather, since in this way they can act in the first minutes to save lives.
The use and handling of this tool is suitable for any person, although from the Consistory "courses will be taught to the staff of the spaces in which they have already been installed for a faster and more effective response."