Saturday, September 27, 2008
Playa de Fañabé gets a defibrillator
The Playa de Fañabé (it means Dolphin Beach, by the way) on the Costa Adeje, now has the first defibrillator on the Canary Islands coast.
It's mildly amusing to read that the apparatus, a Semi-Automatic External Defibrillator according to the report in Diario de Avisos, was "inaugurated" yesterday, with the usual contingent of Canarian politicians in attendance, but having one available to the emergency services right there at the busy beach aims to shorten the response time in the event of cardiac arrest and will surely improve the chances of saving a life if it's ever needed.
The news report also tells is that Tenerife already has 4 defibrillators (apart from ones in hospitals, ambulances, etc., presumably), situated in 3 sports centres; Santiago Martín, Ríos Tejera and Francisco Peraza (La Laguna) and, at the Intercambiador (bus / tram terminus) in Santa Cruz.
There are 25 more defibrillators that are shortly to be distributed throughout the archipelago, destined for the most crowded public spaces where lots of people are to be found. One is to be placed in the Loro Parque, another in the Basilica in Candelaria and others in various ferry ports of Tenerife.
If you know you have a heart problem, at least you can enjoy a day out and relax a bit more, knowing where these life-saving devices are.
Photo: LeoSynapse
