Schools on the South Shore will soon be better equipped to deal with medical emergencies.
The province recently announced $700,000 to install defibrillators in every public school in Nova Scotia.
Spokesperson for the local regional centre of education, Ashley Gallant, tells our newsroom three schools in the area presently have AED’s.
They include Chester Area Middle School, Forest Heights Community School and Bluenose Academy.
That means 20 schools on the South Shore are on the list to receive an AED.
Gallant says the order process is underway for the life-saving devices and they will be installed once they are received.
Roughly 70 schools in Nova Scotia already have the electronic devices and the money will help with the purchase of up to 350 more of the AED’s.
Once school-based automated external defibrillators are installed, they will be added to the provincial registry to help EHS in emergencies.
A defibrillator is used to help those in cardiac arrest and delivers an electric shock to help the heart return to a more effective rhythm.