Since the 1st Phase of the Plan began on Thursday, February 8, with the Mussona Release until Sunday 18, which closed the Advanced Health Post at 8 in the morning, 18 Predictable Risk Devices have been designed by the Management Group of the Spanish Red Cross in Águilas.
Some documents that have been integrated into the Specific Emergency Plan of the Eagles Town Hall Carnival and that have allowed absorbing and resolving with minimal response times all the health incidents that arose during the celebration of the Festival of International Tourist Interest held in the municipality .
Nearly 260 Spanish Red Cross personnel among Doctors, Nurses, Technicians, Sanitaries, Employers, Rescuers and Logistics of numerous Local Assemblies of the Community and even Albacete have made their time available to aquilines and visitors so that everything would develop normally .
On Saturday the 17th, it recorded the highest number of interventions due to the thousands of attendees who moved around the city, although the Red Cross's program of resources and resources allowed all attendances, both in the parade and during the night, to be evaluated and stabilized successfully.
Only two of the 85 patients seen on Saturday were referred to the referral hospital in Lorca and two others to the Águilas Norte health center for complementary medical tests, the rest being discharged "in situ".
In total, during the 3 weeks that Red Cross Emergency Staff members have covered the events of Carnival 2018, 186 interventions have been carried out, a figure similar to last year's.
18 of them assisted by the Medical Team in the Advanced Life Support Unit, 76 attended by the Basic Life Support Units and 85 in the Advanced Health Post located in the Port Esplanade.
In parallel, Emergency Technicians belonging to the guard in the city have intervened in 7 emergencies at the request of the Emergency Coordination Center of the Community and have continued to perform the social services included in the Socio / Sanitary Transport Agreement with the Consistory aquiline in force throughout the year.
Source: CRE en Águilas