Mouth of the River, See.- The Boca del Río World Trade Center (WTC) was certified as a cardioprotected space by the Mexican Society of Emergency Medicine.
During the inauguration of the 34th International Congress of Emergency Medicine and Resuscitation, the venue received a donation of a defibrillator and the training of 200 employees to deal with any cardiac emergency.
Daniel Sánchez Arreola, president of the Mexican Society of Emergency Medicinespecified that the above is part of the National Program for access to public defibrillation and improve mortality from heart attacks.
A cardioprotected zone means that it is a place where there are personnel trained to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation and an automatic external defibrillator available to the population.
Why is it necessary to have and know a defibrillator?
He insisted that the group under his charge promotes legislation so that public and private spaces with a large concentration of people, such as the WTC, have defibrillators, since 400,000 people a year die in the country from heart disease.
The importance of having automatic external defibrillators is that heart disease is a major public health problem in Mexico and with the use of this portable technology in someone who has suffered a heart attack or cardiac arrest increases its risk by 80 percent. chance of survival by not being in a hospital, he said.
For his part, the Secretary of Tourism of Veracruz, Ivan Martinez Olvera, In addition to highlighting the importance of congresses for the benefit of tourism, he celebrated the donation of the two defibrillators, as it will make it possible to deal with emergency cases that might occur to visitors at the venue, and provide a better service.
