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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Stuart Sommerville

Call for network of defibrillators across West Lothian to save lives

A network of life-saving defibrillators across West Lothian must be created to address a “healthcare crisis” of needless deaths from heart attacks in the community, councillors have agreed.

A meeting of the full council this month backed a motion from the depute Provost Peter Heggie calling for a survey of defibrillator access in the county and a call to lobby Holyrood for more funds to develop a network.

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