The diagnosis of a ten-year-old girl with a heart condition led to the donation of potentially life-saving equipment to her school.

Hannah Dukony, ten, has recently been diagnosed with Long QT, a heart disorder that causes sufferers to have an abnormal heart beat.

Bedmond Village School, where she is in Year 6, now has the means to help her should she have an attack after a defibrillator was donated yesterday (Tuesday) by the charity Wayne’s Fund.

Danuta Wall, headteacher at Bedmond School, in Meadow Way, said: “What we’ve seen so far is she gets out of breath and has episodes where she feels faint. It gets progressively more serious.

“The machine is so easy to use; it virtually tells you what to do. It gives you very clear instructions about what to do each step of the way.

“It’s a very expensive piece of equipment. We’re very grateful. We would rather not have a situation here but we’re very grateful for the equipment and training because we will feel more empowered to deal with a situation when it arises.

“We hope we never have to touch it.”

The charity was contacted by Hannah's aunt, Julie Long.

And this is the 13th donation of a defibrillator, which gives the heart an electric shock in cases of cardiac arrest, made by Wayne’s Fund since Wayne Pope died suddenly in August 2005, ten days after his 30th birthday.

His family set up the charity after discovering a defibrillator could have saved Wayne’s life.

“Because of the urgency of this case, we put it to the top of the list,” Glynn Pope, Wayne’s brother, said.

“We’re trying our hardest to get these machines out and are looking for donations. Each machine is £1,500 so it’s quite an expensive thing to fund.”

Glynn added that since Francis Combe teacher Anthony Taylor survived a heart attack last year by using a machine donated to the school, the charity had gone “from strength to strength”.

For more information, visit www.facebook.com/waynesfund.