Pipes, drums and haggis have played their part in improving the health care in a North East township.
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A Scottish Ceilidh, or social event, complete with music, dancing and a three-course dinner attracted 250 people and raised more than $5000 towards a new defibrillator for Tallangatta Health.
The town's masonic lodge, Benambra Lodge No 153 Tallangatta, organised the function and also put on Bunnings barbecues and private catering to increase the total to $7998.75.
A partnership with The Freemasons Foundation Victoria, which contributed $7825, allowed the lodge to hand over the equipment on Friday.
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Tallangatta Health chief executive Denise Parry thanked the Benambra Lodge and the wider community for its support in providing the state-of-the-art defibrillator.
"That was a significant amount of money for our small community to raise," she said.
Unlike the health service's present equipment, the new defibrillator could be either automatic or manual.
This meant the nurses could use their advanced life support skills to assess how best to treat a patient in the urgent care room.
"It's actually just given us a piece of equipment that enables us to deliver a better standard of understanding what's going on with that patient's rhythm in their heart and treating it," Ms Parry said.
Lodge Master Ernie Cole said the donation had been a major project for his group over the past year.
"It's a great pleasure to think that you're helping somebody," he said.
"It could save a life and you can't put a price on that."
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