A WOMAN’S life was saved by a defibrillator which was installed in Dodworth just six months ago.

It is thought the woman had suffered a heart attack, and the defibrillator, which is situated at the Dodworth Miners’ Welfare Club on High Street, had been used until paramedics arrived.

Nigel Carr, a bar manager at the club, said he had received a phone call from Yorkshire Ambulance Service to say the defibrillator had been taken, and asking him if it had been replaced.

He checked to make sure it had been returned and was told by the operator that it had been used on a woman last Wednesday. He was not given any details of the woman, except that the defibrillator had helped.

Nigel said: “The defibrillator is on the outside of the building where people can take it.

“I got a phone call from the ambulance service to make sure it was back in its place.

“The gist of what I’ve heard from other people is that a young lad came running up into Dodworth wanting a defibrillator because his mum’d had a heart attack.

“Someone told him there was one at the miners’ welfare and he took it.

“He’d started to use it by the time the paramedics got there, and they took over.

“I tried to enquire about the lady, but the ambulance service wouldn’t tell me anything.

“I got another call from the ambulance service again last Thursday to say it had been taken, but not used.”

Nigel said the incident proved there was a need for more defibrillators.

He added: “It is brilliant that it has helped save someone’s life. That’s the whole idea of us putting it there, for Dodworth, Gilroyd and all the villages in our area, so that if a situation occurred then we can use it.”

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