(Photo By Sherry Aske)
The Heart and Stroke Foundation is getting $100,000 dollars from the province to buy 25 new defibrillators.
The Foundation's Chief Executive Officer Dan Connolly says defibrillators should be as common as fire extinguishers, and they want to have 200 in place across the province by 2011.
Connolly says of the 1200 people in the province who experience heart failure outside a hospital each year, 95 per cent die as a result.
He says with defibrillators in place they can save 70 per cent of people instead of just five per cent.
Mayor Ivan Court says while defibrillators are already in every rink in the Greater Saint John Area, he'd like to see one in all of our ball parks, malls, and hotels.
