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GRANDMOTHER who has spent more than two years raising cash to buy an
electrocardiogram machine has realised her dream.
Joy
Powell, who is the Worcester representative for the charity CRY (Cardiac Risk in
the Young) has raised more than £10,000.
Last
week the ECG machine she purchased was
placed in a Worcester doctors’ surgery.
CRY
maintains young people are dying unnecessarily of heart defects which could be
picked up by a simple scan.
“It
only takes three minutes to save a life,” said Mrs
Powell, who started up Worcester CRY in 1998 after her best friend’s son,
Craig Rampton, died instantly after collapsing on a sports pitch, aged 20.
It
was later discovered he was suffering from an enlarged heart muscle, a condition
known as Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) -
one of 11 major causes of unexpected cardiac death in young people.
“I
promised people when I was doing my begging that the
money would stay in Worcester and this is exactly what’s happened,” said Mrs
Powell, a grandmother of six.
When
the scanner is not being used to
perform subsidised screenings in the community, it will be put to use at Berwyn
House Surgery, in Worcester’s Shrubbery Avenue.
“We’re
happy to be supporting the charity and we are more than happy for our work to
dovetail into CRY’s work,” said Dr Michael Sorensen, who has been at the
practice since 1980 and is also the chairman of Worcester City Football Club.
With permission The Worcester
Evening News
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