The defibrillators are to be placed in public areas through Derry city centre.
Derry is to get a number of life-saving heart defibrillators.
The machines are to be installed at a number of public locations across the city.
Details of the plan will be discussed at a meeting of Derry City council today.
SDLP councillor Mark O’Donnell has welcomed plans for the installation of the public access defibrillators.
Cllr O’Donnell said the machines can play a vital part in saving people’s lives.
“It is a fact that for every minute that goes past without de-fibrillation during a sudden cardiac arrest the survival rate of patients decreases by 10% if you take the NI Ambulance service’s target response time for category A calls as 8 minutes you can see that in some cases the chances of survival for a patient will have seriously diminished before professional help has arrived.”
He added “By having these defibrillators on scene bystanders will be able to provide vital intervention and radically improve a patients chances of survival, the defibrillators can only be accessed via a pin code provided when the emergency services are called and they can be easily used with the guidance of an operator.”
“I welcome the plans brought forward by the city centre manager and Derry city council to have these defibrillators installed they will improve the safety of people within our city centre while also relieving some of the burden on our pressured Emergency services staff.”
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