2023-06-29 12:42:50
A 56-year-old Frenchman in cardiac arrest lost his life on Saturday after the defibrillator that could have revived him failed to start due to lack of batteries.
«[La batterie] was stolen. Some really have no conscience! There, it caused the non-assistance to anyone in danger. Lives could be saved but there, we no longer provide the service!” angrily launched Alain Cruchet, mayor of Luart, in an interview with Action Echo on Tuesday.
A few days earlier, a seasonal worker working in a pickle field reportedly suffered a heart attack.
Except that when the owner of the premises, Olivier Corbin, also a firefighter and head of the Saint-Michel-de-Chavaignes rescue center, would have gone to the scene with the public defibrillator in hand, normally installed near a church. , the tool would not have started.
“I put it in place, with the electrodes. I was confident. I told the [Service d’aide médicale urgente] “Wait, there is a problem, it does not start”, he would have reported, before realizing that the batteries were missing, according to the local media.
However, the device had been used only a few months earlier, on April 2, and the electrodes would have been changed the next day, denounced the mayor who would have filed a complaint for theft according to Action Echo.
What’s more, only two days later, the catastrophic scenario repeated itself when a 62-year-old woman became unwell on her lawn tractor, when no public defibrillator was accessible.
“Let everyone periodically check on their equipment, that their battery has not been stolen, to ensure that they are working properly”, would have hammered the mayor by repatriating the defibrillators.
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