The death of a 60-year-old man in the historic center of Almería while waiting for an ambulance that took 40 minutes to arrive has outraged the residents of the capital. It was the same witnesses who alerted the emergency services that a man was lying face down on the public highway, bleeding and "throwing something out of his mouth" yesterday Sunday at 12:00 p.m., according to the account of several witnesses collected by the newspaper. Ideal.
From the 061 Emergency Center, a statement has been sent in which it conveys its condolences to the family of the deceased, since it explains that it received a notice through 112 for the attention of a "conscious person who fell on a public road". that is, a "delayed emergency."
"With this first information, the case is classified as a delayed emergency. In the event of a new call from a whistleblower reporting a worsening of the patient's condition, and with all emergency resources busy, the interhospital transfer unit is activated of critical patients, staffed by a doctor, nurse and emergency technician, who upon arrival could not do anything to save the patient's life", added 061.
For his part, in a note, the Andalusian parliamentarian of the PSOE of Almería, José Luis Sánchez Teruel, has demanded explanations from the Government of the Junta de Andalucía after the news of this death was known.
"It is unacceptable that an ambulance takes 40 minutes to attend to an emergency in the heart of the city of Almería or anywhere in Andalusia. What Andalusia is this?" the socialist wonders.
He has described as "very serious" that a person "has been left lying on a street in the center of the city of Almería, for so long, in front of fifty of his neighbors and tourists, to the point of losing his life. All this, to a few streets from the Nicolás Salmerón High Resolution Center", has abounded.
