He’s there when the heart stops


Life saver: Gee holding an AED device he carries on himself. Standing behind him are the founding members of the Code Blue Rescue Team in Butterworth. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

BUTTERWORTH: A voluntary firefighter has revived more than 100 sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) victims in the last three years – thanks to the automated external defibrillator (AED) that he carries wherever he goes.

Gee Pin Chiew, 40, became a Jalan Raja Uda voluntary fire squad member in 2016.

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