five people there are consequences injuries in an accident There was traffic on the ring road this Friday morning. benissa According to the information received from the Traffic Police, a car carrying horses and a caravan collided head-on. Provincial Firefighters Consortium. One of the injured was very serious and was evacuated by SAMU’s medicalized helicopter. Alicante General Hospital did not have permission to land on the helipad, so he had to take the patient to La Fe in Valencia.
The accident occurred around 12:00 noon. As the N-332 road passes through the municipality of Benissa, It’s on the municipality’s ring road. For reasons investigated by the Civil Guard, a tourist collided head-on with a caravan carrying horses with an animal.
due to the effect five people were injuredthree with mild, one serious and one with a cautious prognosis.
Five teams from the Alicante Fire Provincial Consortium Dénia and Benissa parkswith seven firemen, a corporal and a sergeant.
Firefighters had to rescue a trapped person and, at the request of the CICU, the Alpha 9 helicopter was transported to the scene, which received medical attention. SAMU and SVBBenissa Local Police, Provincial Firefighters Consortium members and Civil Traffic Guards.
SAMU continued to stabilize the most seriously injured person, and given his condition, CICU was asked permission to land on the helipad of Alicante General Hospital, but was denied and they chose to take him to La. Fe in Valencia.
The problem of the helipad at Alicante General Hospital is not new, and its use has been denied several times despite the severity of the cases where permission has been requested due to the patient’s condition.
The installation has already been completed, but apparently there is still a bureaucratic process to start using it, forcing SAMU to carry out road transfers of seriously injured people arriving by helicopter to fire stations in San Vicente or Alicante during the summer months. According to emergency department sources, many of these patients are in critical condition, so being transported by road to hospital is not good for them and is a waste of time, which can sometimes mean saving a person’s life.