Tralee Community Responders held their public meeting on Thursday 26th November in The Brandon Hotel, Tralee and it has been hailed as a success.
The meeting discussed how the scheme would see local, kitted and trained volunteers respond to 999 calls in the Tralee area for chest pain, stroke, choking and cardiac arrest - in tandem with the ambulance service. Approximately 25 people attended on the night and many others have made contact to say they would very much like to join the scheme. John Fitzgerald (CFR Ireland) and Des Kelly (CFR Coordinator - National Ambulance Service) also attended the meeting and explained how the scheme will run, answering a callout, finances and also opened up the floor to questions from interested persons.
Members of the Ardfert & District Community First Responders and the Killarney Cardiac Response Unit also attended to show their support for the scheme and also answer questions from their experience which was greatly received.
The scheme has had 2 defibrillators donated to it in recent weeks which is a massive boost and these will be carried in the kit bags by the responders on call.
Martin Dunne, Director of the National Ambulance Service also took to Facebook to show his support to the Tralee Community Responder scheme, which was a welcome boost to members.
The scheme will now build a team to carry out work behind the scenes including training and fundraising. Due to the close proximity to Christmas, it is expected that this will happen in January 2016.
To keep up to date with the work of the group, see www.traleeresponders.com - like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
The meeting discussed how the scheme would see local, kitted and trained volunteers respond to 999 calls in the Tralee area for chest pain, stroke, choking and cardiac arrest - in tandem with the ambulance service. Approximately 25 people attended on the night and many others have made contact to say they would very much like to join the scheme. John Fitzgerald (CFR Ireland) and Des Kelly (CFR Coordinator - National Ambulance Service) also attended the meeting and explained how the scheme will run, answering a callout, finances and also opened up the floor to questions from interested persons.
Members of the Ardfert & District Community First Responders and the Killarney Cardiac Response Unit also attended to show their support for the scheme and also answer questions from their experience which was greatly received.
The scheme has had 2 defibrillators donated to it in recent weeks which is a massive boost and these will be carried in the kit bags by the responders on call.
Martin Dunne, Director of the National Ambulance Service also took to Facebook to show his support to the Tralee Community Responder scheme, which was a welcome boost to members.
The scheme will now build a team to carry out work behind the scenes including training and fundraising. Due to the close proximity to Christmas, it is expected that this will happen in January 2016.
To keep up to date with the work of the group, see www.traleeresponders.com - like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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