An app to show users the locations of all the defibrillators in the island is currently in the works.

Craig’s Heartstrong Foundation has been working with St John’s Ambulance to create an app to show the location of every defibrillator the charity has donated around the island and will show how to register for a defibrillator.

Chairman of Craig’s Heartstrong Foundation, Paul Healey, explained the charity has been waiting on the software for years.

He said: ’Someone at the ambulance service has been working so hard to try and get us an app which shows you where they all are and he is so close to finalising it.

’He’s been working on it for years with different departments and they’re really close to launching this now.

’Unfortunately there’s so much red tape to get through to get something like this launched, it’s just taken a lot longer than we would have expected.’

The app will show public defibrillators as well as private ones but they will be distinguished by colour.

’So even the offices and the schools can register their defib, it will go on the map as a different colour to the public ones because they can’t be accessible 24/7,’ Mr Healey added.

He is looking at getting an updated list of all the locations from the ambulance service to share on the charity’s website until the app can be released.

Currently there are more than 500 defibrillators, which cost £2,000 each, around the island that have been donated by Craig’s Heartstrong Foundation.

The chairman said: ’Over the last few years we have donated approximately 500 machines around the island and that’ll be in the schools, offices and all different places.

’We’ve donated to doctors’ surgeries because they don’t all have them.

’People do assume that they would have their own but they don’t all have them.’

A mobile defibrillator was given to FC Isle of Man.

’Their home pitch is The Bowl and there is one there that we’ve donated but with them playing their games away we’ve donated one that they can take away with them on all their trips.

’There’s a few mobile ones,’ he added.

Most recently, one was installed at the House of Manannan.

There are still 10 more to be added over the next few months as the charity is set to work with Manx Telecom.

Payphone kiosks that have been taken out of service due to low usage will be used to house defibrillators.

The company did this in response to the appeal by Craig’s Heartstrong Foundation for more to be available.

This followed Danish footballer, Christian Eriksen, suffering a cardiac arrest during a European championship match in June.

The incident sparked an influx of donations for the foundation.

Mr Healey said: ’I think the word to use is booming really.

’We’ve been inundated and we’re just putting as many [defibrillators] out there as possible while we’ve got the funds.

’It’s been a success story, not only for Eriksen surviving but I think the fact that people could see what happened live on the TV, that shook a lot of people but also made them realise how important these machines are.’