Life-saving defibrillators installed in town centres

A NUMBER of life-saving defibrillators are being installed in public places across Knowsley.
The Automated External Defibrillators (AED) are easy to use and can save the life of a person who’s suffered a sudden cardiac arrest.
Since 2013, Knowsley Council has provided defibrillators to every school and children’s centre in the borough, along with Volair leisure centres and publicly-accessible buildings.
The council’s Occupational Health and Safety team has also trained around 800 staff in these locations in how to use the AEDs.
Defibrillators in Knowsley have been successfully used on three separate occasions in the past six months.
Working in partnership with the Oliver King Foundation – set up in memory of 12 year old Oliver, who sadly died at his Liverpool school in March 2011 from Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS) – the council has now expanded the initiative to provide AEDs in the following town centre locations:
- Cavendish Walk in Huyton (next to the Wilko store)
- Eccleston Street in Prescot (next to Wetherspoons)
- St Chad’s Parade in Kirkby (next to Poundland)