Tenby's ambulances are now the best equipped
in Pembrokeshire after the presentation of high-tech baseline observation
monitors from a young man's memorial fund.
Two of the £2850 machines are now on
board, while a third is in Tenby Health Centre.
They have been bought with money raised for
the Caradoc James Memorial Fund, set up after 29-year-old Caradoc's sudden
death seven years ago. It was found that the Tenby father of two had
lost his life because of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - a genetic heart
defect that had previously gone undetected.
His mother, a former Tenby mayor,
Councillor Maureen Ward, is now the Welsh representative for the charity
CRY - Cardiac Risk in the Young - and with her family and friends has
raised over £22000 since caradoc's death.
This has previously paid for an ECG machine
for Tenby Health Centre, funded a CRY screening team to come to the town
and has now bought the three monitors.
Sterling support for the Caradoc James
Memorial Fund has come from Texaco - where caradoc had just begun work
when he died - and Heatherton, the venue for the fund's annual charity
golf tournament.
These were thanked by Mrs Ward at the
presentation, together with John Cross, of Rembrandt Jewellers, who have
sponsored the engraved plaques which will be on the machines. |
