British Heart Foundation to help fund our Defibrillator

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BHF_logo_w252h318Great News!

Mike Coke, of the Packington Memorial Hall Committee, writes:

I am delighted to have heard today from the British Heart Foundation, BHF, who have approved our application for a grant of additional funding towards a Defibrillator for Packington.

BHF will help pay for some of the cost of this vital but expensive piece of equipment, which is soon to be made available right here in our village.

Our main fund-raising event for this expensive Defibrillator is to be the Big Charity Breakfast on Saturday 1st March 2014 here at the Packington Memorial Hall, after which we should be able to send our residual payment to the BHF;  we hope the whole village will come together for a celebration breakfast to help both fund and celebrate this important success.

The machine to be acquired is shown   at right:Zoll Medical AED Plus It is an Automatic External Defibrillator, AED.

An AED is a life-saving device which gives anyone, trained or untrained, the ability to deliver a life saving shock of electricity to a victim of cardiac arrest (where the heart is in an abnormal rhythm/electrical chaos), restoring the heart’s normal rhythm.

While we all hope this never has to be used, the ability to restart a faltering heart is very re-assuring in our village, where trained medical help is usually some distance away, and when mere minutes can make the difference between life and death.