BURNHAM Medical Equipment Fund has supplied vital new life-saving equipment to Berrow's new health campus.
The group has spent £3,000 on an emergency treatment trolley and an electrocardiogram machine for patients at the new £2.5million centre.
Debbie Hale, management partner at Burnham Medical Centre, said: “This is a real boost for the Berrow surgery and the equipment is vitally important for staff there.
“The emergency trolley will be equipped with everything needed to help someone if they collapse.
“And the ECG machine is huge for us because if a patient collapses or has a heart attack and we need to know the situation quickly we won't have to wait for them to be taken to the hospital at Weston.”
Tom Ashton, chairman of the Medical Equipment Fund, said: “Because the new surgery is an NHS surgery all the new equipment we are providing will be fully transportable so if it is needed outside of the surgery it can be used there.”
He also said the £3,000 has been donated to the new surgery as part of the group's 25th anniversary celebrations this year.
A party will be held to mark the occasion at the Batch Farm Hotel in Lympsham on July 3 and original founding members and supporters of the fund are invited.
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