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Cartagena is already a cardio-protected city.

On the morning of this Friday, May 18, the first cardio-protected route with which the city of Cartagena has been presented to the public.

It is a network of columns distributed throughout the city and equipped with defibrillators, resuscitation equipment and basic life support for its use by citizens, in case of cardiac arrest.

The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, was in charge of presenting this first cardio-protection route, along with her the mayor of the Sustainable Development and Public Function area, Francisco Aznar, the representative of the ZOLL brand, attended the event. Spain, Francisco Cerón;

the head of exploitation of Port Authority, José María Fuster, among other charges of the Local Police and Firefighters of the municipality.

This first cardio-protected urban road starts in the Port of Cartagena with the first column owned by the Port Authority, which is installed in the cruise terminal, the second is located in the Plaza Heroes de Cavíte;

there is a third one in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento;

the fourth column can be found in the Plaza de San Sebastián and the fifth in Carmen Street, all of them also have location signs and location arrows.

The City of Cartagena launched this initiative through the Cartagena Cardio-Protected City Project, which is responsible for centralizing, raising awareness, and disseminating everything related to this topic.

Among its main pillars is the centralization and optimization of own resources, as well as the facilitation and integration of all the institutions and population of its scope of action.

Within the scope of action of this municipal project has already started, also, the program of optimization of municipal automatic defibrillators, by which 14 schools in the city and districts (12 CEIP and two IES) have during the period school with defibrillators (DEA), which reach more than 4000 schoolchildren.

In addition, during the summer season these defibrillators are used by Civil Protection on beaches.

The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, said that "from the City Council it is expected that citizens know the importance of having these columns in a public space as close as is the public road and help their conservation by not misusing from the same".

Columns such as those already found throughout the urban area of ​​Cartagena have been previously installed in other Spanish cities such as Madrid or Gerona.

Automated defibrillators, resuscitation equipment and basic life support are available to the public 24 hours a day and have video surveillance measures.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena