During the first six months of this year, the 061 Emergency Medical Care Service (SAMU 061) of the Balearic Islands carried out, on average, fifteen emergency patient transfers every hour, a figure extrapolated from the total number of patient transfers to different hospitals, which was 41,284.
The number of activations of advanced life support ambulances (SVA, equipped with technician, doctor and nurse) was 9,671. In addition, a rapid intervention vehicle (VIR) was sent on 3,181 occasions. In total, the basic life support ambulances (BLS) have been activated 48,616 times. Therefore, the half-yearly balance is that SAMU 061 resources have been activated 63,805 times.
For its part, the air transport service – managed by SAMU 061 itself – has already carried out 830 transfers between islands and to the mainland in the same period, which represents 15% more than in the same half of 2022.
More than 400,000 calls
In terms of the number of telephone calls, the Medical Emergencies Coordination Centre handled 407,772 between January and June 2023, of which 211,004 were to 061, attending a total of 122,488 users, but it should be noted that half of the cases were handled without the need to send a mobile health resource from 061.
The resources available to SAMU 061 are three aircraft (two helicopters and a plane) and a reserve plane to cover situations in which one of the vehicles is not operational; it also has 37 operational bases throughout the Balearic Islands, 3 air team bases and 5 heli-spots.
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