(submitted photo/Rodney White)

By Mat Barrett

AED at Brunswick

‘If and when needed’: Brunswick School installs AED

Jan 7, 2020 | 2:00 PM

It’s there if needed, but you hope to never have to use it.

Brunswick School in Melfort officially installed an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) in their school just before the Christmas break.

The unit cost about $3,000 and Principal Rodney White said they had been fundraising for about a year now, but with some help from the Kinsmen and Kinette groups of Melfort, they were able to get it in December.

White said their staff is trained with ‘restart a heart’, but they felt an AED was something they should have.

“We realized that even through that training,” he said. “That for a school our size, we need an AED to help strengthen all of our procedures.”

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He added the AED kind of calms their minds a little bit.

“We’re ready, in terms of that as a staff” White said. “But having the AED kind of makes things a lot more safe and secure, if and when needed for sure.”

While the AED will help the school staff and students, it will also be on the map of units in the area, in case anyone needs it in the community.

“Even though this is purchased to support us and the school, it also becomes part of something to help those in need in the community if and when needed too,” White told northeastNOW. “

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