Cardiac rescue equipment to be kept at Kovai railway station, airport
Automated External Defibrillators will be kept at Collectorate, RTO and bus stands in Coimbatore
To save people who suffer heart attack while in a public
place, Rotary Club of Coimbatore will install 10 automated external
defibrillators where public movement is high in the city. The Coimbatore
Railway Junction will have three defibrillators, and one each will be
installed in the Collectorate, Coimbatore Airport, the District Sessions
Court, Regional Transport Office and the Ukkadam, Gandhipuram and
Singanallur bus stands. The AEDs will be installed at the railway
junction and the Collectorate on July 19, to mark the launch of the
programme.
Each AEDs cost Rs.1.5 lakh. While the club
has contributed Rs.10 lakh, the manufacturer of the AEDs –Philips – has
waived the balance amount of Rs.5 lakh as part of its corporate-social
responsibility.
Project Co-ordinator of the club J.
Bala Venkat said this was conceived after the death of Ganga Hospital’s
anaesthetist V. Ravindra Bhat. He suffered a heart attack while waiting
to board train at the station. This exposed the lack of a system to save
heart attack victims in places where public congregate in large
numbers.
“In Japan’s capital Tokyo, an AED is available every 500
metres. Developed nations have such emergency rescue apparatus in
public places and also train people in using these,” Dr. Venkat said.
“Coimbatore will be the first city to have the AED in as many as 10 public places. The Indian Society of Critical Care Management
and the Indian Red Cross Society have offered to train people,
including the common public, in using the AED and also in other forms of
cardio-pulmonary resuscitation,” he said.
First,
training will be given to the railway staff at the Coimbatore junction,
right from the Station Manager to the porter on the platform. Any member
of the public trained in the use of the device can also carry out the
revival measure on a person who had suffered a heart attack.
Similarly, training will be provided to the staff at the airport and the other places where the AEDs will be installed.
Burglar-proof glass
All
the AEDs will be kept in a burglar-proof glass case. The opening of the
case will set off an alarm that will alert the people/authorities that
either there is a burglary attempt or that someone has suffered a heart
attack and needs help.
While
the trained person will use the defibrillator on the patient, the
others can mobilise an ambulance to shift the person to a hospital.
Dr.
Venkat said he and Rotary Club of Coimbatore president K.S.
Balakrishnan, secretary Gurpreet Singh and Project Chairman N.
Sundaravadivelu drew up an action plan on installing the life-saving
devices.
District Collector M. Karunagaran identified the spots where these could be located.
Sponsor
“These 10 locations need not be the only ones to have the AEDs. More organisations can join
in sponsoring these for the public. At the same time, educational
institutions, offices, commercial complexes such as malls, cinemas and
even gated communities can have these. Training can always be provided
to people on using these,” he said.
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