Push for defibrillators in Adelaide CBD

Adelaide City Councillor Phillip Martin says if defibrillators were installed around the CBD it would save lives.

An Adelaide City Councillor wants life-saving defibrillators installed in city streets.

Cr Phillip Martin says it would cost about $100,000 to install 30 automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in public places around the CBD.

AEDs come in a small pouches and offer voice prompts to deliver a reviving pulse to patients in cardiac arrest.

"If you save one life in the period of one year or two years, what an investment. What a sound investment," he told ABC radio on Tuesday.


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