Theft and damage of defibrillators ‘obscene’

The concerns have raised the leg on the number of public access defibrillators who have damaged or stolen in the leg in Northern Ireland in recent years.

Defibrillators are used, together with resuscitation or RCP, to give the best duration of survival a heart judgment. They give an electric or current charge to the heart to try to restore a normal beat.

There are thousands of community defibrillators in Northern Ireland in places such as schools, sports centers and shops.

The new figures obtained by BBC News or show that the police have resorted to the reports of 30 defibrillators or damaged in the last five years.

Public access defibrillators are registered in the Northern Ireland ambulance service (Nias) and are assigned so that public members can know these locations when necessary, a duration of a 999 call.

They remain common in cabinets in prominent public places.

Some cabinets are unlocked, while others are blocked and require a code.

Johnny Finch, from Cookstown, has a series of stores that have defibrillators that can be accessed without a code.

In the last six months, Finch said many of these devices have stolen or damaged.

Two defibrillators have store tasks of stores in recent months, with a returned bee after an appeal on social networks.

“They are not only successful to replace, but the most important thing is that they are depriving the local community of an essential health device,” he said.

In the last three months, Finch said the devices in their stores had been used three times.

“It simply shows how important these pieces of team are and I cannot understand what motivates people to manipulate or take them,” he said.

“This is a team that saves lives and when some branch or damages a defibrillator, it will literally have an impact on a life or death situation.”

Finch said he is “reluctantly” exploring additional security precautions in relation to the team.

“We may have to look at a locking box and a code, which will really attack at a valuable time,” he said.

Police are still investigating some of the incidents related to the theft and damage of defibrillators in the business facilities of Mr. Finch.

The PSNI said that the broader tendency to manipulate with the harmful is worrisome.

Psni that Wilson said: “It is completely discouraging that anyone risks with the life of another person by eliminating the thesis devices that were installed to benefit the entire community.

“Anyone who manipulates or steals defibrillators is committing a crime and faces the very real perspective of prosecution and criminal record.”

The portable defibrillator was invented by the cardiologist born in Northern Ireland, Professor Frank Pantridge, in 1965.

The former Football Captain of Derry Gaelico, Kevin McCloy, knows very well about the importance of the team.

He suffered a heart trial a club game in 2014, which fell to the ground unconscious.

“I was tolerated, some doctors arrived at the field of the crowd with the defibrillator of the Club house and my life returned seven or eight minutes later,” he said.

The Kevin club had defibrillators on the ground as a result of a high profile campaign after the death of Tyrone Gaa star, Cormac Mcanallen, who died of a heart condition hidden in 2004.

Kevin said he is shocked by the last defibrillator theft and damage figures.

“I thought that one or two incidents would have bone bad enough, but when you are in the 30 mark, it is ridiculous, it is obscene.

“Whoever is doing this would need to take a good, hard and long look and think about what they are doing.”

“It could be your brother, sister, mother, father who might need this team someday to give them a chance to fight,” he added.

McCloy said he understands that more security measures are needed, but that he is concerned about the precious time that could be lost.

In a statement, a spokesman of Nias said: “The possibility of a heart trial outside the hospital is already low in less than 10%, but there is a solid base of evidence that early CPR and access to a defibrillator have a significant impact on the increase in the patient.

“The damage and theft of these vital salvation devices can have a direct impact on the result of the patients and everything should be done to prevent these events.”

‘The Circuit’ is a national online defibrillators network that links all ambulance services in the United Kingdom.

There are approximately 3,708 permanently recorded fixed community defibrillators in the circuit.