Esmeralda Gomez with a defibrillator in 2019. PHOTO BY JASON PAYNE /PNG
Delta put AEDs in secondary schools in 2015, New Westminster installed them in all schools in 2018, and Coquitlam has had them in all district buildings for several years.
The Richmond school district recently approved spending $180,000 to buy one or two AEDs for each elementary school, depending on their size, and three for each high school.
Vancouver School Board Trustees who said no to protecting kids, teachers and parents lives with AEDs
Victoria Jung (Chair)
Janet Fraser (Vice-Chair)
Lois Chan-Pedley
Alfred Chien
Preeti Faridkot
Suzie Mah
Jennifer Reddy
Christopher Richardson
Joshua Zhang
Student Trustee
This student watched his friend die: He's angry Vancouver won't mandate life-saving medical device in schools
The VSB wouldn't accept the automated external defibrillator (AED) that Tobias Zhang and his friends bought for their Vancouver high school.
Unlike the heartless #VSB school board trustees,
"The #Richmondbc school district recently approved spending $180,000 to buy one or two AEDs for each elementary school, depending on their size, and three for each high school."
vancouversun.com/health/stude... #vanpoli #bced #AED