The new Oswestry Rotaract clubs ongoing community programme to skill people in the community in the basic lifesaving skills of how to perform good and effective Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and use of a defibrillator, has put 8 more capable residents in Knockin into the community who are able to sustain life until the paramedics arrive.
The Knockin group now have the knowledge and importantly the confidence to use one of the public access defibrillators in the wall mounted boxes in the village after they undertook the two-hour session and learned what to do in the event of a cardiac arrest.
The community project, organised by retired Community First Responder Mike Lade and President of the Oswestry Rotaract club, aims to familiarise ordinary people in and around Oswestry on how to become ‘life savers’ in their own communities to sustain life before the ambulance arrives. The session is run by serving and retired responders who have the experience of doing it for real.
Mike Lade said, ‘After the very hands-on session using our training dummies and training defibrillators, everyone was equipped with the skills, but more importantly, the confidence to use a defibrillator available in accessible boxes on walls and in redundant telephone kiosks in the communities. If you would like your own free session in your own village or community group to empower more people able to use these skills, then please contact Mike Lade on the details below. Having people in the community with the knowledge gained from these awareness sessions are even more important now that Oswestry lost its ambulance station and ambulances waiting outside hospitals.‘
The new Rotaract club welcomes anyone of 18plus who wishes to learn more about this Rotary membership option for a modern generation without the financial burden of being a Rotary club member then please contact Mike on 07803 038858 or via email at mikelade1975@gmail.com.
Pictured: Some of the new ‘life savers’ in the Knockin community.
