The extra-hospital emergency service of the Madrid City Council, Samur-Civil Protection, carried out a total of 159,399 interventions in 2022, more than 436 each day, which represents a record in the 30-year history of the service, reports Efe.
The data for 2022 exceeds those registered in the years prior to the coronavirus pandemic (there were 158,000 activations in 2019 and 150,200 in 2018), which reflects the total return to normality in the city of Madrid.
This was highlighted this Friday by the mayor, José Luis MartÃnez-Almeida, during a visit with different members of his government to the new Samur-PC base in the Moncloa-Aravaca district, where he thanked the work of the most valued municipal service – with a note of 8.5- by the people of Madrid.
The almost 160,000 activations of the Samur-PC media during the past year responded to a total of about 132,000 events (131,792), 1,444 of them serious and with critical patients, the City Council abounds in a statement.
Of the total number of events, a total of 45,020 required hospital transfer and 1,467 of them were admitted to critical hospitals with advance notice (52 of them under 16 years of age).
The five districts where the most attention was provided by the municipal service in 2022 were, in this order, Centro (13.1%), Carabanchel (6.9%), Puente de Vallecas (6.8%), Latina (5.8%) and Moncloa-Aravaca (5.6%).
In 2022, the response times by the SAMUR-PC units were maintained, despite the increase in registered activity.
Thus, they used an average of 9 minutes and 32 seconds from when the citizen calls the switchboard until the unit arrives at the determined place, a time that is reduced to 7 minutes and 49 seconds from when SAMUR-PC receives the notice until its arrival.
These times are shortened in the case of care for critically ill patients who suffer from a pathology in which time is vital for their survival, with an average of 8 minutes and 37 seconds from the time the call enters the central until the arrival of the unit (almost one minute less than the 9 minutes and 3 seconds in non-critical cases) and 7 minutes and 3 seconds from when SAMUR-PC receives the notice until its arrival.
In 2022, Samur-PC has carried out health coverage in 1,584 foreseeable risk devices: sporting and cultural events, demonstrations and popular festivals.
Among the most significant, the NATO Summit, which had a deployment of 150 service personnel to guarantee attention at all times to the delegations that met in Madrid in June.
Also the Pride festivities (MADO), those of San Isidro, the Popular Marathon, the concentrations of fans after the World Cup soccer matches and those of high risk, the San Silvestre, the Three Kings parade and the grapes in Sol.
Among the most outstanding interventions in 2022, in addition to those deployed at the aforementioned events, Samur-PC attended three deliveries on public roads, as well as various services that confirm the success of the ‘chain of life’.
For example, a 35-year-old man, Carlos López, who at the end of the year suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest in a gym and from which he survived thanks to the application, benefited from this comprehensive concept of assistance through links that SAMUR-PC strengthens. from Samur-PC’s telephone advice to his monitor, who began cardiac massages until the arrival of the health workers.
One in five people who suffer these stops in the capital recover without sequelae thanks to this chain, one of the highest rates in large cities in the world.
In addition, last year Samur-PC participated in a total of 26 drills in collaboration with other services and institutions, highlighting the macro drill in Cuatro Vientos held within the framework of the XXV days of catastrophes organized by Samur-PC himself last October in Madrid and which had more than 600 national and international participants
