Portal de Molina de Segura

www.portaldemolina.com

• Home
• Business
• Hotels
• Restaurants
• News
• Advertisement

| The Civil Protection Department invests a total of 19,000 euros in the purchase of the vehicle and its equipment | The Molina de Segura City Council, through the Civil Protection Department, has invested 19,000 euros in the acquisition of an ambulance for basic life support and its equipment, destined for the municipality's Civil Protection Health Unit.

As reported today, Friday, September 18, the Councilor for Civil Protection, Julia Fernández Castro, the vehicle is equipped with a biphasic defibrillator monitor, multiparametric monitor with constant and electrocardiogram measurements, medicinal oxygen, immobilization material and patient mobilization, vacuum mattress, spinal board, etc. Fernández has highlighted "the work of volunteering in recent years, as many of its members have been trained to be within the Health Unit and to be able to provide health support within our municipality.

The ambulance may be activated and always conditioned by the availability of volunteers, for scheduled services (providing support to the health facilities of the events or activities of other councils), guards (established by the Civil Protection Health Unit and in coordination with 061) and emergencies (those that due to their urgency and / or need prompt activation is required) "0.

This Health Unit is made up of different health profiles, such as technicians, nurses and lifeguards, with two managers in charge of ensuring that everything runs efficiently. Until now, the Civil Protection Service had only one vehicle for rapid intervention (equipped with medical supplies), prepared for a first assessment and first aid practice, until the arrival of the necessary health services for the transfer of the patient to a hospital center, the last action that can be carried out by this ambulance, following the established health protocols and practicing a better intervention on the patient. With this new acquisition, the Molina de Segura fleet of Civil Protection vehicles has: 1 assistance ambulance, 1 transport van for 9 people, 1 logistics truck, 1 rapid intervention vehicle (off-road), 1 intervention van, 2 motorcycles and an all-terrain vehicle for flooding and searching for people in forest areas.

All of them located in the Civil Protection Base, in the Polígono de La Serreta. In addition, a specific protocol for the ambulance has been created by the Department of Civil Protection, which aims to inform volunteers of the minimum requirements that they must meet for its use and activation.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura