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The Councilor for Sports, Ricardo Segado, the coordinator of sports activities, Eduardo Armada, and the doctor of the Sports Service and coordinator of the program 'Cartagena, Cardioprotegida City', Antonio Pastor, presented Wednesday the list of cardioprotected municipal sports facilities in Which have been arranged automatic and semi-automatic defibrillators.
According to Segado, 99'9% of the municipal sports facilities are cardioprotected.
These are 45 of these places equipped with a defibrillator, and a total of 52 devices, half of which have been acquired in recent months.
Of these sites, 27 are soccer fields and 18 correspond to other sports and purposes among pavilions, swimming pools, sports complexes, etc.
The number of these devices was completed with the incorporation of 21 defibrillators that have been donated by the Federation of Soccer of the Region of Murcia.
All of them are fully operational, registered in the registry of the Autonomous Community and have personnel trained in the use of them.
Also, in all facilities with built-in defibrillators there are explanatory signs about their use and basic life support maneuvers as well as relevant signage.
It should be noted that although 90% of the defibrillators are in Sports, they are actually all available for use by anyone who might need them in the vicinity of different equipped facilities.
On the other hand, also have been detailed the measures that are being taken in relation to the project 'Cartagena, Cardioprotegida City' from the Department of Sports.
In addition to the placement of these devices are training courses in CPR and use of these defibrillators in conjunction and according to the regulations of the Autonomous Community, as well as recycling every two years.
"It is not worth training a large masses with few means, so you need competent material and personnel that impart it. It is very important that when there is a cardiac arrest has a defibrillator nearby and can begin to act before the first four minutes ", Said the Councilor for Sports;
This is important because if you act immediately increase survival rates, as health professionals usually can not arrive so early and usually take more than ten minutes.
Segado stated that "it has been a priority of this City Council and of the Department of Sports that all municipal facilities where physical activity is carried out have cardioprotected spaces" and expressed its satisfaction at having reached full coverage in this matter.
It coincided with him Eduardo Armada, who explained that this covered a ceiling that the Council had planned to achieve, which was that all facilities were cardioprotected.
He also recalled that Cartagena was a pioneer in sports medicine centers, a journey that culminates today after 30 years of work.
For the implementation of this project have served as a reference the examples of cities such as Pamplona or the province of Girona.
Also, all mechanisms have been optimized so that all defibrillators are always fully operational, so that they comply with the established regulations and the personnel in charge of their use is properly formed.
On the other hand, the big events and the great concentrations of sports are also protected in this sense.
"There is a huge awareness on the part of the City Council to help clubs, entities and events, which are a very important asset for the city," said Armada.
"The objective is to optimize resources and that all citizens of Cartagena can access the defibrillator at any given moment," said Antonio Pastor, who has advanced that soon will be the website of the program, which will be displayed in a Map where each of these devices is located and, likewise, they will be made available to the Murciano Health Service.
Pastor also commented that the ratio of defibrillators in Cartagena exceeds the European average in a ratio of three or four to one.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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