A potentially life-saving defibrillator has been stolen from outside a chiropractic clinic in Cowes.
The device was taken last weekend, prompting the team at Cowes Chiropractic Clinic on Birmingham Road to take to Facebook this week to express their ‘dismay’.
Anyone with information is being asked to contact Police on 101.
Louise Walker, Head of the Isle of Wight NHS Trust’s Ambulance Training and Community Response has said:
“I struggle to find the words to express my huge disappointment to learn of the Cowes Defibrillator that has gone missing.
“As an Ambulance Service we and our Defibrillator Guardians work extremely hard to ensure these life saving devices are in place, should someone suffer a sudden out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
“If an unconscious casualty’s heart goes into a shockable rhythm their chance of survival with CPR alone can be less the 7%. However if a defibrillator is there within the first three minutes, their chance of survival can increase in some cases to as much as 74%.
“If anyone knows the whereabouts of the defibrillator taken from Birmingham road, Cowes please call 101. If you know who has taken it, please ask them to return it to its outside wall box so it can once again be available for all the community.
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