The Councilor for Public Safety of the City of Lorca, Belén Pérez Martínez, detailed the police action developed on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 18, when service agents attended a woman who gave birth in a car.
Specifically, they were agents of the Units of Prevention and Protection of Citizen Security and the Traffic and Mobility Operative Group who attended the singular incident.
Pérez Martínez pointed out that "at 4.30 pm, 112 reported that a woman had gone into labor in the streets, specifically on Calle Floridablanca, in front of the Santa Rosa de Lima Health Center. Local, which upon arrival urgently request that a medical ambulance be sent when encountering a pregnant woman reclining in the back of the vehicle of some friends, whom she had called because she was ill. "
"The woman told the agents that she was contracted, so one of the local police contacted a family member who is a doctor by profession, who was giving instructions via phone about the steps to be followed, while the rest of the agents They proceed to help her, providing her with blankets and trying to calm her down due to the intense pain she had, producing the baby at that moment, then the doctor who was giving the instructions by phone verifying that apparently both the baby and the mother They were in good health, presenting themselves with a medical ambulance which proceeds to cut the umbilical cord and the transfer of the baby and the mother to the Rafael Méndez Hospital. "
The mayor wanted to make a recognition to "all the agents who attended this emergency and who displayed professionalism and know how to face such an unexpected and complicated situation as this, fortunately, was optimally resolved for both the mother and the baby".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca