Please consider contributing whatever you can towards a life-saving automated external defibrillator, to be located in Thorstone Drive, Irby, CH614XR.
The number of people surviving cardiac arrests outside of a hospital is 10.8%, which is the highest level it’s ever been and is twice the rate that it was a decade ago. This means that the placement of defibrillators around the UK is greatly needed, to help further increase these statistics.
Our closest defibrillator is 9 minutes away . With cardiac arrest, the first 3-5 minutes are crucial. We believe a defibrillator would be ideally located in Thorstone Drive for the benefit of residents in a 5 minute radius and the high number of passers-by.
The department for Health and Social Care can supply an External Community Defibrillator, this is a limited time offer. Match funded price of £750 through their Community Defibrillator Scheme. A defibrillator and External Heated Cabinet with keypad lock would normally cost well over £1000.
A kind resident has offered to pay up front for the defibrillator so that we can take advantage of this offer. We are crowdfunding so we can pay this £750 back and use donations to cover additional costs such as electrical installation, replacement pads and batteries and to cover crowdfunding fees.
Accessibility to a defibrillator is key to saving a life when someone has a cardiac arrest, and every second is vital.
Having an AED so near to our homes and our local community may save precious seconds and significantly contribute to saving lives. Please give what you can.
Thank you.
Further reading is available at
https://londonhearts.org/
https://www.bhf.org.uk/
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