Stephen Lappin was out for a run at Glasgow Green, in April this year, when he collapsed however a quick-thinking member of the public called 999 and was directed to the nearest defibrillator.
A Glasgow man who went into cardiac arrest while out for a jog has hailed the "miraculous" defibrillator which saved his life - just weeks after saving another persons.
Stephen recalled: "I decided to come and run the 3k on the Green event. People told me that I collapsed spectacularly and got everyone’s attention. There are currently over 98,000 defibrillators registered on The Circuit across the UK, but they are not evenly distributed. The British Heart Foundation fears that gaps in the map of defibrillators are putting lives at risk.
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