The phonebox set to save lives after community gets new defibrillator
Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterResidents have got their own community defibrillator just months after a 44-year-old resident suffered a heart attack in the neighbourhood.Dad-of-two Mark Baillie had a cardiac arrest in June and thankfully paramedics managed to reach him in time.Mark dialled 999 when he realised what was happening and the ambulance medics turned up with a defibrillator, which saved his life.Just a few months later the machine has been installed in Mark’s hamlet thanks to the efforts of neighbour Gordon Thom.The race horse breeder managed to get the defibrillator installed in a red phone box in Barbieston outside Drongan.Dad-of-two Mark said: “If it saves one