The Lanzarote Security and Emergency Consortium closed last week this new edition of the campaign to save lives in possible drownings on beaches and swimming pools in the last session held on El Reducto beach, in Arrecife.
Aparicio attended this last edition together with the manager of the Security and Emergency Consortium, Enrique Espinosa, and the municipal councilors of Security and Emergencies, Kevin Cortés, and of Beaches and Environment, Davinia Déniz. "More than a thousand people have participated in this initiative, carried out in collaboration with the Mapfre Canarias Foundation, the Lanzarote Health area and the Red Cross," said the councilor, who especially appreciates the work of the technician of the Canarian Health Service, Benjamín Nieves, who was in charge of offering the talks in the seven municipalities and in La Graciosa.
The campaign "This summer, safe dip", consisted of several activities, such as the basic notions of drowning prevention and basic training workshops in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and PAS behaviors (Protect, Alert Help). In addition, the Security and Emergency Consortium not only held these talks in the different municipalities and in La Graciosa, but also participated in numerous summer camps in which boys and girls from the island participated.
The main objective of this campaign is to make users of aquatic spaces aware of the main measures for preventing drowning and other common risks in the aquatic environment and to teach the necessary guidelines to know how to detect and act in the face of this type of emergency situations in order to achieve zero deaths in the aquatic spaces of the islands of Lanzarote and La Graciosa.
According to the INA National Drowning Report, in 2023 there were 52 deaths from drowning in the Canary Islands, a lower number than in 2022 where there were 63 deaths from this cause, but the Canary Islands continue to be one of the communities with the highest number of deaths from drowning, which is why the Lanzarote Security and Emergency Consortium considers it a primary need to continue with the important preventive work of this campaign.
"We are delighted with the large number of participants in this year's campaign, and we hope that more and more people will know these fundamental behaviors to avoid possible accidents in the water," concluded Francisco J. Aparicio.
