The EKAV issued an announcement regarding a newspaper circulating about the death of a 55-year-old farmer in a cart in Preveza, which characterizes the publication in question as “inaccurate”.

Specifically, the EKAB points out in a press release that regarding a publication about an incident of “delay” in the “transportation of a 55-year-old man in a rural cart, due to lack of an ambulance, to the Kanalaki Health Center of Preveza” (https://kanalakinews.gr/tragodia-sto-kanalaki- 55chronos-metaferthike-me-agrotiko-sto-kentro-ygeias-kanalakiou-kai-pethane/), we clarify the following:

On Thursday 6 July 2023, at 20:24, Preveza EKAV received a call from Immediate Action (100) regarding an incident from the area of ​​Stavrochori Preveza about a man who had lost consciousness

The Preveza EKAV coordinator immediately forwarded the call (20:25) to the Kanalaki Health Center to send an ambulance to the incident. The ambulance of the Kanalaki Health Center, staffed with a rescuer and a doctor, started immediately (20:27) to the scene of the incident. At 20:30 and at a distance of about eight hundred meters from the Kanalaki Health Center, they met a farm vehicle which was transporting the patient in question.

Based on the official information of the 6th Health Region of the Peloponnese of the Ionian Islands, Epirus & Western Greece, regarding the management of the incident in question, the ambulance of the Kanalaki Health Center stopped at the point where it met the agricultural vehicle transporting the patient and immediately the doctor performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) using an automated external defibrillator (AED). Since the distance to the Kanalaki Health Center was close and in order not to waste precious time, the doctor asked the driver of the farm vehicle to start and head (with the ambulance) towards the Health Center while he continued uninterrupted and exaggerating himself to perform CPR on the patient.

At 20:35 the agricultural vehicle arrived at the Kanalaki Health Center, where the effort of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation continued for more than an hour, without result.

Following the above, it is obvious that such publications directly attack the professionalism and self-sacrifice of all health personnel, who with superhuman efforts defend 24 hours a day the social good of public health.