East Cork garda stations install defibrillators to save anyone in cardiac arrest

An AED is a portable, simple to use, computerised device that can deliver a shock to the heart of a person in cardiac arrest to allow it to resume its normal rhythm

Superintendent Adrian Gamble, Mark Lynch, National Ambulance Service, Sargent Gillian Meany and Ger O’Dea, National Ambulance Service outside Midleton Garda Station which together with Cobh Garda Station saw the installation of new automated external defibrillators. Picture: Chani Anderson

Two lifesaving defibrillators have been installed outside garda stations in East Cork.

One of the automated external defibrillators (AEDs) has been attached to Midleton garda station, on Oliver Plunkett Place and the other is outside Cobh garda station on the harbour town's Lower Road.