If there is an emergency in Sayulita, are we ready?

Fortunately, in these weeks we did not have even a single case of influenza A/H1N1, where the majority knew what to do, however, this week we did have a patient that required emergency medical service and hospitalization who did not know what to do. And this is not the first time.

In 2 ½ years of medical practice in Sayulita, I have dealt with two sad realities: the hospital of San Pancho does not have all the resources all the time to deal with an emergency, and the transport of critically ill patients to good hospitals in PV is very slow (up to 3 hours) or very risky as it is done in cars without proper medic or paramedic care.

I wonder: Are we really ready as a community to deal with an emergency, an epidemic, hurricane, fire, etc.?
From my point of view, the answer is: NO.

We are at a critical point that I consider vital to our community to have an ambulance, paramedics and professional lifeguards, preferably all the year. Therefore I appeal to everyone to think what are we going to do to have a community ready to respond to an emergency.

If you have any ideas or comments, I promise to read and answer them all, write a message here in the Comments section or directly to my email.

Saludos!

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