A campaign has been launched to install a defibrillator after a father died at a Bolton beauty spot on a family walk. Ketan Patel was only 45 when he died on May 11 this year. He had been on a walk up Rivington Pike with his wife, Nita, and their eight-year-old daughter when he collapsed.
Members of the public and paramedics tended to him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Now friends Sarah Gaskell, Shelley Ford and Claire Pilkington were on a walk at the time when they came across Ketan, Nita and their daughter. Now, they have launched a fundraiser to install a defibrillator at Fika Cafe Rivington, near to where he collapsed.
(L-R) Claire, Shelley and Sarah are campaigning to get a defibrillator installed up Rivington Pike (Image: Public) Sarah said: "We had just gone for a walk up Rivington Pike as you do. "You know how you notice people on a walk, we had seen this family earlier on. "When we got to the café, there was all this commotion and people looking after a gentleman on the floor.
"The wife and daughter were on their own so we went over and spoke to them. It is difficult because there is not much you can do." To donate to the fundraiser, visit this link: https://www.
justgiving.com/crowdfunding/Rivingtonpikedefibrillatorfund She added: "There was a policeman and A&E nurse administering aid to him. Ketan Patel (Image: Family) "We took the daughter to the side, she was only eight.
They kept trying and he was coming in and out of consciousness. "Then the air amb.
