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Popular Spanish Ibiza has a long-standing reputation as a tourist party hotspot, but the parties are so intense that they put a strain on local health resources.
A quarter of ambulance emergency situations are linked to large leisure centres, Spanish publication Eldiaro.ES reported.
The Healthcare Technicians Union (WCUHT) Work Council states that most calls are drug-based or Alcohol Incident At clubs involving foreign tourists – tension ambulance technicians.
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“The situation remains entrenched as the population grows, leisure centres increase and instead of moving forward, we are retreating,” said union president Jose Manuel Maloto.
Approximately 3.28 million in 2024 Visited Ibiza, According to Ibiza’s preservation, there were 3.38 visitors the previous year.
Foreign tourists partying at Ibiza’s leisure centres are straining local healthcare resources. (istock)
“Provides services to tourists We have to saturate our services from the nightclubs, harm other emergency situations on the island, and endure ambulance delays,” Maloto said.
European Psychiatric Research Analysis published by Cambridge University Press Drug-related deaths At Ibiza from 2010 to 2016.
“The situation remains entrenched as the population grows.” (istock)
This study found that MDMA and cocaine are the most commonly used substances, and that the number of deaths in the yearly “sharply increases.”
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Party promoter Wayne Anthony told Sky News last year he didn’t think Ibiza’s drug problem would be halted.
“Providing services to tourists from nightclubs saturates services, harms other emergency situations on the island and has to withstand ambulance delays.” (istock)
“These movements driven by music, those driven by art, fashion and drugs are part of it, whatever the line, whatever law, I don’t think you can stop it,” Wayne said.
He arrived on the island in 1988 and stated, “It was this beautiful hot island that Ibiza represented, visually surprising and we knew you could legally party there.”
Ambulance technicians are asking for clubs to hire private emergency services. (istock)
Center for Public Health Researchers at Liverpool John Moors University published a 2014 study on the behavior of young British tourists between the ages of 16 and 35.
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Of those surveyed, 85.3% reported using illegal drugs – 54.1% Smoked Caffe.
WCUHT is hoping that the club will work with its own private ambulance service.
In 2024, approximately 3.28 million people visited Spain’s popular island of Ibiza. (istock)
“The club has obligations Health Services This will become a public system because even nurses and emergency technicians are not forced to hire ambulance services,” Maloto said.
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He added, “We all pay for ambulances to these companies that make billions of billions. That’s not what we get.”
