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SALTFLEETBY'S Jean Douglass is so keen to set up a life-saving First Responders team in her village she went without a birthday!
Instead of receiving
presents, Jean, who turned 60 last week, took donations towards setting up a local emergency unit, which gives on-the-spot care to people with heart or breathing difficulties until an ambulance arrives.
She raised £100 in donations to add to £320 raised by a Christmas fair at a local church.
Jean, a practice nurse at the Marsh Medical
Practice North Somercotes, aims to start the scheme with her husband Richard, a retired accountant.
Mr. Douglass said: "We want to get a First Responders team up and running in Saltfleetby, which could also cover Manby, Grimoldby, and Theddlethorpe - basically anywhere that is a five minute drive away from the village."
The First Responder initiative was launched in 1999 by Lincolnshire Integrated Voluntary Emergency Service (LIVES) to increase the survival rate of patients who suffer sudden heart attacks, particularly those in more rural areas.
Alerted by the 999 services, a First Responder aims to get to the scene within the crucial eight minutes needed to attend a heart attack victim.
Each is equipped with a defibrillator, at a cost of around £2,200, which analyses the heart rhythm and will only shock when the heart is in Ventricular Fibrillation (VF). The responder will then administer CPR until an ambulance arrives.
First Responders do not attend road traffic accidents.
The schemes runs all over the county including Louth, North Somercotes, Withern, Aby, Skegness and Alford, and have so far reduced the death rate to heart attacks by a third.
Start up costs for a First Responders team are £7000, which covers a multitude of expenses including a defibrillator and training.
If you can help Mr. and Mrs. Douglas reach this target telephone them on:
- 01507 338960.
Remember;
LIVES NEEDS YOU, BUT ALSO, YOU OR A MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY MIGHT
ONE DAY NEED LIVES!!
Can
you help in any way to make Jean's Dream come true for our Village?
Please give her a call.
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