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UK health chiefs make defib appeal

BBC News
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HEREFORDSHIRE, UK — Ambulance chiefs have appealed for anyone with a defibrillator to inform them in the wake of the death of a man from Herefordshire.

West Midlands Ambulance Trust made the call after it emerged a machine was near Alfred Parry, 81, when he suffered a heart attack.

An ambulance containing a defibrillator had to be sent from neighbouring Bromyard delaying resuscitation.

Full Story: Location of defibrillators unknown, sources say