A Cumbrian business has made a generous, potentially life-saving, donation of two defibrillators to the Great North Air Ambulance Service.
Sellafield Product and Residue Store Retreatment Plant recently visited GNAAS' base in Langwathby, Penrith to hand over the devices.
All the staff at Sellafield are provided with training on CPR and how to operate a defibrillator, and they recognised how important it was for the GNAAS to have life-saving equipment readily available to them after the past 12 months, when two members of staff benefitted from early defibrillation following a cardiac arrest at work.
Lee Salmon, head of operations west at GNAAS, said: "Sellafield have recently replaced many of their AEDs [Automated External Defibrillators] and very kindly decided to donate these two units to GNAAS.
"Our teams don’t always travel with frontline lifesaving equipment, yet can and do come across incidents, so having an AED in the car will be of great help should the worst happen."
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