PUB regulars will be testing their grey matter to raise enough money for a life-saving heart defibrillator.
Lona Fedorowicz, 48, landlady of the Prince of Wales in Church Way, Iffley, wants to install it on the front of the pub after her 92-year-old father Kazimierz had a heart attack.
She said: “Thankfully his life was saved by paramedics, but ever since I have wanted to do something to help other heart attack sufferers.
“Installing a defib machine here at the pub, which the whole community can access, seems like a great idea and as soon as I mentioned it, our regulars welcomed the chance to make it happen.”
Mother-of-one Ms Fedorowicz said: “One of our customers, Paul Carroll, also suffers from a heart condition and since meeting him it has struck me how important a resource a defib could be, not just for our customers, but also people living around here, the nearby school – everybody.”
Defibrillators deliver electric pulses that can ‘jump start’ a heart in some cases of cardiac arrest.
Statistics show more than 75,000 lives per year in the UK could be saved by the immediate availability of a heart defibrillator for a person in cardiac arrest.
Early defibrillation can increase chances of survival from five per cent to more than 50 per cent.
Ms Fedorowicz said the pub holds a quiz every week and is hoping to raise £40 each time. The target is to collect £1,000 for a defibrillator by next spring.
The pub will also host awareness evenings and talks in the coming months and there will be collection tins on the bar.
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