The Councillor for Health of the City of Lorca, Antonio López Moya has announced that the hamlet of La Paca lorquina has been enhanced their health care with the commissioning of an ambulance equipped mobile ICU.
The mayor has detailed "a vehicle is known as Basic Life Support.
Going into details is a Ford Transit, with an output of 140 hp, with the latest advances in this type of ambulances as are traction control 4-wheel to avoid skidding, the vehicle locator GPS satellite from the CCU (112), and data transmission of patient clinical affiliation and satellite, among others. "
The mayor explained further that "the total cost of the vehicle along with the structural transformation and clinical equipment that is provided is 120,000 euros.
With this car we are improving emergency assistance well above the actual.
Also speaking time and gain safe transfer to a hospital in critical emergencies is very valuable in saving lives.
With this new ambulance emergency can not address many other vital and delayed delivery or non-removable, among others. "
The City Council of Health has reported further that "this ambulance comes to improving the care of the residents of La Paca, as well as the hamlets high in our municipal area.
We're ensuring basic life coverage, to cover different situations such as cardiac arrest, and any type of wound susceptible to minor surgery, accidents of any kind, acts of aggression, pediatric and neonatal performance, all in a perfectly carrier designed for that purpose.
For this we offer the most modern technological and pharmaceutical suitable for different circumstances raised.
This cite a few: automatic defibrillator, respirator, equipment for airway management and emergency circulatory, basic surgical equipment, immobilization and containment equipment, basic medication to any emergency, basic pediatric team performance with a complete neonatal delivery team.
This perfectly described in the ambulance and following a rigorous protocol allocation and placement, agreed by a large multidisciplinary team, which willingly collaborated with great interest and dedication. "
The Director of Nursing, Area III, Andrew Salvador Soto, for his part stated that "after much stress by obscure interests that we would remove the emergency department of the Paca this improvement is an example that while some plant discord and fear, others solve problems at work and fulfill our service obligations to the community. "
The Mayor of the city, Francisco Jodar, along with the mayor of Health, Antonia Lopez, and the Director of Nursing, Area III, Andrew Salvador Soto, formally presented tonight at 8 at the Health Center of La Paca new vehicles .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca