A new Defibrillator unit was installed at Ashford Hill Village Hall on Thursday 18th April. With the existing unit at Ashford Hill Primary School inaccessible outside of school hours due to the locked gates, the Parish Council purchased an additional unit to be accessible at any time which is installed on the North West corner of Ashford Hill Village Hall right next to the B3051.
Should anyone encounter a casualty who is unresponsive and not breathing you should immediately dial 999 to request an ambulance, or get someone else to do this for you. The sooner CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) is started the better the casualty’s chance of survival. The 999 call handler will ask your location and if the Defibrillator is needed you should send someone to fetch it, staying with the casualty to carry out CPR as guided by the 999 call handler. The 999 call handler will give you the lock code for the cabinet containing the Defibrillator for the person sent to fetch it.
The Defibrillator unit itself is portable (battery powered) and fully automatic, and once the case is opened it gives audible voice instructions from an internal speaker for how to operate it.
The Parish Council would like to thank the Ashford Hill Village Hall Committee for allowing us to site the new unit on their building. This is a potentially very valuable additional resource for our Village, although of course we hope it is never needed.