And, after watching Christian Eriksen suffer a cardiac arrest during Denmark’s Euro 2020 match with Finland last month, the pair decided more needed to be done in case something similar happened closer to home.
Heather Cox and Roz Robertson with their defibrillator at the Queen Victoria Inn in Blaenavon. Picture: Heather Cox “We were watching and we were thinking ‘Get the defibrillator’,” said Ms Cox. “Luckily they had one. “We had already bought a defibrillator for the pub, but when the pub is shut it’s useless. With the fundraising we were doing already, we decided to get a cabinet for the one here and at Blaenavon RFC.
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