PHOTOS: Sergio Betancort
The Security, Emergency, Rescue, Prevention and Fire Extinction Consortium of Lanzarote delivered nine semi-automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) to the island's police forces this Monday, one to each Local Police force of the seven municipalities, plus an eighth for La Graciosa and a ninth to the National Police.
"The Consortium is at the service of the needs of all citizens. Every day we try to improve the work and coordination with all security or volunteer forces, because they are also on the street every day, close to the residents, and it is essential that they have the best training and provision of materials," said the president of the Consortium, Echedey Eugenio, at the delivery ceremony, which took place this Monday at the headquarters of this body.
Semi-automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) allow diagnosing and treating cardiorespiratory arrest when it is due to ventricular fibrillation - in which the heart has electrical activity, but without mechanical effectiveness - or to ventricular tachycardia without pulse, one in which there is electrical activity, but the blood pumping is ineffective. These defibrillators allow restoring an effective cardiac rhythm electrically and mechanically. "The AED is very effective for most of the so-called cardiac arrests, which are mostly due to the heart fibrillating and its rhythm is not adequate," they emphasize from the Consortium, from where they point out that "these devices basically return the appropriate rhythm to the heart."
The Civil Guard will also receive defibrillators
From the Security and Emergency Consortium, they point out that in the next few days this device will also be delivered to the detachments of the Civil Guard of Arrecife, Costa Teguise, San Bartolomé, Tías and Yaiza.
The Consortium also delivered seven TETRAS (Terrestrial Trunked Radio, a digital radio accepted for critical communications) this Monday to the Civil Protection Volunteer groups of the island's municipalities. The investment in both endowments exceeded 40,000 euros and previously all security forces and volunteers have received training for the correct use of these devices.