The Eureka Veterans Cycling Club have received the wonderful gift of a defibrillator from the St John Ambulance – Heart Start Community Project.
The Heart Start Community Project is aimed at getting defibrillators out into the community.
The project is part of the St John Ambulance Victoria Defibs Save Lives initiative and during September 2015, over $80,000 worth of defib bundles have been distributed to central Victorian not-for-profit organisations and sporting clubs.
30 defibrillator bundles have been gifted to clubs and organisations from towns such as Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Maryborough, Kyneton and many more. Along with the defibrillator, each bundle includes online training available for up to 10 members of each club.
St John Ambulance Victoria – we are very pleased to be able to provide defibrillators to the Victorian community with the financial support of the Hilton White Bequest. It is important to us that we can promote the benefits of defibrillators to the wider community, to encourage greater take-up of these life-saving devices and to further our goal of saving lives through First Aid.
The Eureka Veterans Cycling Club predominantly races on circuits near the township of Learmonth. The ambulance response time to an incident in this area is in excess of ten minutes.
In conjunction with CPR, the ideal time frame to use a defibrillator on a sudden cardiac arrest patient is within the first three minutes.
Terry Collie (President – Eureka VCC) said, ‘Although our members would be considered relatively fit and healthy they do fit into the higher risk age groups and while exercising regularly is a positive step in maintaining good health there are no guarantees. A defibrillator represents peace of mind knowing that if required there is a unit close by for use in an emergency response. We hope we do not have to use it, but it is reassuring to know that there is a defibrillator on standby available should the need arise. The club considers the defibrillator a wonderful asset that is the equivalent of extra insurance.’
The Eureka Veterans Cycling Club thanks the Hilton White Bequest and St John Ambulance Victoria for this great program.
We will strive to get the message out to the community that Defibs Save Lives.
For more information go to…
http://www.defibssavelives.com.au/
Eureka Veterans CC members receiving the defib bundle from St John Ambulance Victoria representative Martin Wells.
Representatives from 21 different not-for-profit clubs and organisations received defib bundles on 16th September 2015, at the Morshead Park function room, Redan, Ballarat.
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