Chances of heart attack survival boosted at Longwarry

Some 220 Longwarry people now have the skills needed to help hen they are near somebody that suffers a heart attack.
They have taken part in the Heart Safe Community program learning how to perform CPR and use on automatic external defibrillator (AED).
The program, a joint initiative of Ambulance Victoria and the Heart Foundation, teaches the three steps bystanders can take to help those that have a cardiac arrest survive until paramedics arrive.
The three steps are Call triple zero (000), push hard and fast on the middle of the chest and shock by using an AED.
There are four registered AEDs in Longwarry available around the clock; at the football netball club in Collett St, Lactalis Australia in Mackey St, the Friendly Grocer Supermarket in Kennedy St and Settlers Rest caravan park at Morrison Rd, Longwarry North.
Ambulance Victoria will donate another in coming months.
AV Gippsland community engagement coordinator Jessica Shepherd said a bystander applying CPR and using an AED increases a patient's survival chances by more than 70 per cent.
The minutes between a cardiac arrest occurring and paramedics arriving are a vital time to act, she said.