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Defibrillator installed at All Saints Community Hall!

We are delighted to announce that we now have a Defibrillator installed on the south wall of the Community Hall in the centre of Melbourn. Recommended by the British Heart Foundation, this machine is the generous gift of Val Barrett, and at the beginning of September the Trustees and guests met to say thank you to Val and to watch a brief video on its use. We hope to run this video from time to time at our popular Coffee Stop on Saturday mornings, and when we are able to start our Cinema nights again the video could well be shown during the ‘warm up’ advertisements. We hope that in this way people will become familiarised with the way it works and not be frightened of using it.

Briefly, when you telephone 999, if the operator suspects that the problem is a heart attack you will be directed to the nearest defibrillator and given a code to enter on the box. This will release the piece of equipment which you then take back to use on the patient. Clear and detailed instructions are given and hopefully an ambulance will arrive very quickly to take over. Whilst we feel this is a great asset we cannot help hoping that it does not have to be used too often!

Trustees Peter Hills, Brenda Melionotis, Mavis Howard, the donor Val Barrett, Jacey Stewart, KImmi Crosby, Chris Davison, Alan Brett, Pat Ames. continued on page 6