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Thanks to one of the initiatives approved in the participatory budgets of 2016, the locality of Santomera will have 14 new defibrillators that add to the six with which it already had, with personnel trained for its management and with a signage that will indicate properly where They find these devices.

All this will be worth becoming, before the end of the year, one of the first 'Cardioprotected City' of the Region.

In order to obtain this certification, Councilor for Sports and Safety, Javier Campillo, has already held the first talks with the Spanish Society of Medicine and Occupational Safety (SEMST), the entity in charge of granting it.

This body considers a 'Cardio-Protected City' to be one that works to get public access to defibrillation as effective as possible.

To this end, the City has invested 21,768.51 euros in the acquisition of fourteen semiautomatic external defibrillators (DESA), as well as the cabinets and posters necessary for its correct placement.

In addition, it has reserved another 9,000 euros to subsidize a dozen approved courses on the management of these devices, which will take place between November 21 and December 22: the price will be reduced from 75 to 10 euros for people registered in the Municipality and will be free for all municipal staff and mandatory for Local Police officers, custodians of municipal buildings and educational centers, staff of the Department of Sports, at least two educators of each school, a Cedes And two workers of the Municipal Warehouse.

The places that will have defibrillators are: the sports pavilions, the Municipal Pool, the football field El Limonar, schools, institutes and municipal schools, a patrol car of the Local Police, the Town Hall, Casa Grande, Casa de Don Claudio, the Health Center, the Center of the Third Age, the Young Space and the Cedes.

The need for cardioproteger

According to SEMTS data, more than 40,000 cardiac arrests occur every year in Spain, equivalent to one every 16 minutes, causing four times more deaths than traffic accidents.

Ninety percent of them occur in out-of-hospital settings and, given that intervention is required within five minutes, only 5% survive without sequelae.

Hence the need for quick, simple and effective access to DESA.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Santomera