Wakefield Express, 26th July 2019
The device, installed at the A1 Football Factory in Pontefract in late April, was used to save a life only weeks later on the 14th of May when a man went into cardiac arrest in the changing rooms of the club.
“One evening a guy collapsed in the changing rooms, a bloke in his mid-60s,” said Allen Haywood, a worker at the club. “The young lad on reception went down to the pitches and got one of the customers who came up and took over and used the defibrillator until the paramedics and the air ambulance got there. They saved his life. It was fantastic really that it was deployed and worked and helped save his life.”
The installation of the device at the club was funded by Dale Skelton of Multifuel Energy through a fundraising campaign led by Ruth Cain and Alan Haywood for charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY).
