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This fundraiser will buy the AED with all the additional equipment needed to put it into service (that includes 6 sets of pads.) So no, an additional $1000 is not needed at this time to provide the service.
This isn't something that will be used every time the ambulance responds to a call.
There are 5 days left on our fundraiser. We are $340 away from our goal. Won't you please help us go over the top today?
https://www.youcaring.com/negril-jam...service-431108
I just contributed a little bit. Good luck!
Thank you Frank!!
Today, I would like to give you some scenarios where the use of an AED would be appropriate.
You see your housekeeper at your hotel suddenly collapse. You, or another person, determine she is unresponsive and someone calls for help. Someone immediately begins CPR. If the hotel has an AED - this would be the time to use it. If the AED is used, and it provides the shock and your housekeeper regains consciousness - CPR and and the AED were effective. The ambulance arrives and your housekeeper is transported to the hospital. In the ambulance, she suddenly is unresponsive again, and because there is an AED on board, another shock and CPR save her life again and she arrives at the hospital alive.
The same situation could be true if EMS staff is at a gathering, like the Negril Rotary Donkey Races every year in February. They have their AED with them in the First Aid tent and are ready to use it for visitors, vendors, Jamaican residents -- anyone who is there. Having an AED available helps assure that basic emergency services can be provided for visitors and residents alike.
An AED is used in specific situations, such as these.
Wouldn't it be a sad if someone survives an initial incident, and then dies in the ambulance on the way to the hospital because they don't have an AED?
We are $295 away from our goal this morning! So close, with 5 days left.
Let's do this!
https://www.youcaring.com/negril-jam...service-431108
Marcia
This is such a worthwhile cause, who knows who might benefit from a defibrillator for Negril Emergency Service. Zelda and I have made another donation to the cause. Who else is willing to help?
We only need $120 to make the goal and I'm afraid we aren't going to do it.
I see everyday here how giving and sharing everyone is and I hope you are willing to give a little bit more.
Just a few board members giving just a few $ each and we will make it.
I don't think there is an amount too low to be accepted.
Nothing wrong with a single donation of $120 either. :-)
Thank you Rumlover!!
Again - a big Thank You to all who have donated so generously.
I often read discussions on the board about the problems with the Ambulance in Negril. There have been questions raised that might be discouraging people from donating to this fundraiser.
Is doing nothing better than making an effort to improve the service the Ambulance can provide?
I don't think so. That is why I will be providing ongoing support for this endeavor. I don't plan to buy the AED, hand it over and wish them well. I will report our ongoing efforts as they unfold.
Here is your opportunity to be part of the solution. Lets get the final $120 today!
https://www.youcaring.com/negril-jam...service-431108
Just donated. :)
Come on guys. Don't be cynical about this.
You'll spend 20 bucks on beer which you only rent anyway.....
We'll match the next 20.00 donation.
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