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March 26, 2001 in Edgecomb, Carol Daigneault’s northbound SUV was turning from Route 1 onto Route 27 when the car hit black ice and tipped onto its side, smashing Daigneault’s arm through the driver’s side window and pinning it under the car. “After a few futile attempts to call into the blackness for help, I lost consciousness,” the Rockport woman writes in a new letter to Wiscasset Fire Chief Rob Bickford and the department.
Daigneault’s letter came with a $1,000 donation to the department.
Bickford received the letter and donation in the mail March 29. Responding to questions from Wiscasset Newspaper April 2, Bickford said, “I was surprised to read about how the event still affected her 20 years later. We haven’t yet discussed what we will use the money for but will use it exactly as she wishes.”
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India is set to donate 109 ambulances to Bangladesh on the occasion of the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. );
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Indian High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami informed Foreign Minister Ak Abdul Momen about the goodwill gesture in a meeting on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
The vehicles will be handed over during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi s trip to Dhaka to join the celebrations of Bangabandhu s birth centenary and the golden jubilee of Bangladesh s independence. Of the 109 ambulances, four will be used in Sylhet, the ministry said.
Modi will arrive in Dhaka on a two-day visit on Mar 26.
Russia has donated 1,000 doses of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine to Vietnam, marking the first time the vaccine has been delivered to the South-East Asian nation, state media said on Tuesday.
St John gifts lifesaving device to marae in Murupara
15 Mar, 2021 10:16 PM
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St John s Dione Cobb (left), Tipapa Marae s Cecelia Walker and St John s Tania Joe with the marae s new lifesaving device. Photo / Supplied
Rotorua Daily Post
The chances of surviving a cardiac arrest have been boosted for the community surrounding Tipapa Marae in Murupara, with the gift of a new automated external defibrillator (AED).
The lifesaving device presented by St John is the latest of 28 AEDs donated by ASB and Philips to support efforts by St John to improve cardiac arrest survival rates in New Zealand.
St John s Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) registry, released last week, revealed last year, St John Ambulance treated more than 2000 people for a cardiac arrest in the community, with only 31 per cent of those surviving to hospital arrival.