Petersborough, a Small city in Ontario takes the lead installing AED's

Another small town sees the benefit of AEDs and has been installing and training city employees how to use them. Here is part of the story from the Peterborough Examiner describing their plans to purchase even more automated external defibrillators.

Shocking help; Portable defibrillators helpful; healthy lifestyle even better
Editorial - Friday, June 22, 2007 Updated @ 7:28:38 AM

If there is such a thing as a good place in Ontario to have a heart attack, Peterborough is on the list.

The reason? Portable defibrillators. Five years ago Peterborough was the first smaller city in the province to install the units in public buildings and train employees to use them.

At the time, automated external defibrillators were put in the Memorial Centre, Evinrude and Kinsmen arenas. A year later Trent University and Sir Sandford Fleming College each got one.

Last year four were installed at the Robinson Place provincial government building at Water and Charlotte streets.

And on Wednesday, Peterborough city and county went on the list of six communities that will get the first wave of an army of the potentially life-saving machines that are being financed by the Ministry of Health Promotion, the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation and a private company, Transamerica Life of Canada.

The city will get seven more of the portable units. Peterborough County gets its first 18 units. They are worth $3,000 apiece.

The program will also pay to train eight to 10 employees at each of the locations to use them....