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18 - 24 May 2023 Image by Benidorm Local Police/Facebook
Issue No. 1976
José Manuel hugging Local Police officer Cyntia.
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POLICE ANGELS
AN elderly couple from Gi jon (Asturias, northern Spain) returned to Benidorm last week to thank two Local Police offi cers who saved the man’s life while they were on hol iday in the town in January. José Manuel collapsed while walking down Lev ante promenade with his wife María del Carmen af ter visiting the local market on January 22. He suffered a stroke that left him un conscious and without a pulse. Two Local Police officers, Cyntia and Marcos, rushed to the scene and per formed cardiopulmonary resuscitation manoeuvres
on José Manuel for 12 min utes while they waited for the ambulance to arrive. Their efforts paid off as they managed to get his heart beating again, thus saving his life. After recovering from the first stroke he suffered three more, one on the promenade while they waited for the emergency
medical services, a second in the ambulance and a third in the hospital. José Manuel spent 12 days in Marina Baixa Hospi tal until he could be dis charged and sent back home. Meanwhile, the couple’s son obtained the phone numbers of the two offi cers to thank them for their
help and kept them for when his father was well enough to do so himself. As soon as he was given the green light to travel by his doctors, José Manuel and his wife Maria rushed back to Benidorm to thank the ‘two angels’ in person, in their own words, and to invite them back to Gijon for a holiday.