RICHMOND, BC--Around $40,000 worth of life-saving defibrillators have been donated to strategic parts of Richmond in a bid to increase public safety.
King George Park was one such place last week when an automated external defibrillator (AED) was handed over by the Heart & Stroke Foundation to staff at the park as part of a joint venture with the government, called the BC Public Access to Defibrillation (PAD) Program.
A total of 450 AEDs will eventually be installed at public venues across the province, such as community centres, arenas, recreation centres, playing fields and parks over the next two years...
The British Columbia Ambulance Service (BCAS) has also linked the AED Registry with the ambulance dispatch system.
This registry will enable a bystander who calls 9-1-1 to be directed by a BCAS dispatcher to the nearest AED. BCAS dispatchers can also assist bystanders to apply an AED during a medical emergency.
SOURCE: Richmond News