Submitted on Friday 8th July 2016
Rejected on Tuesday 19th July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Ensure travel companies have defibrillators with trained staff at all hotels
Recently my father passed away in Majorca, Spain on a Thomson holiday. It wasn't until a few weeks after his death we found out that there was no defibrillator in the hotel let alone trained staff. Having the defibrillator may not of saved my father however it could save many other lives.
"Sudden Cardiac Arrest happens around 140,000 times a year in the UK alone, making it one of the UK’s largest killers – equivalent to a jumbo jet crashing every day! The potential for saving a life is dependent upon time, the faster medical help can be attained, the better the chance of survival. Clinical studies suggest you have less than 5 minutes from the event to save the life, this decreasing by up to 23% per minute" (communityheartbeat.org, 2016).
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Government can't require Spanish hotels to train their staff or have defibrillators on the premises. If you want a change for UK businesses, you could sign this petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/129714
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