At around 17:24 p.m. yesterday, the Emergency and Security Coordinating Center (CECOES) 1-1-2 of the Government of the Canary Islands received an alert in which they requested health assistance for a woman who had suffered a fall and had trauma to her head and shoulder in Barranco Hondo, at the height of the Arco del Coronadero.
A 50-year-old woman, who at the initial moment of assistance presented with head and shoulder trauma, was rescued by the GES helicopter and transferred to the Doctor Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria.
The GES helicopter rescued the affected woman and transported her to the hospital helipad and from there a SUC ambulance took charge of her evacuation to the hospital emergency service.
The 1-1-2 immediately activated the necessary emergency resources, the Emergency and Rescue Group (GES) of the Government of the Canary Islands and the rescue helicopter, the Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC) with the basic life support ambulance, the collaboration of the Fire Fighting, Rescue and Rescue Service of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, the Local Police and Civil Protection.