An awareness day to highlight the symptoms of heart failure takes place on Friday.
Debra Vickers, the lead nurse for cardiac services at the Western Isles Hospital and Sonja MacLeod from Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland will be on hand to provide information and goodies.
Debra will also be offering confidential blood pressure testing for anyone who is interested.
An estimated 100,000 people in Scotland are living with heart failure but many more are not aware they have it.
Heart failure is a serious medical condition where the heart does not pump blood around the body as well as it should. This means that blood can’t deliver enough oxygen and nourishment to allow the body to work normally.
European Heart Failure Awareness Day 2016 is all about raising awareness of heart failure, including the possible symptoms and the importance of an early diagnosis.
This is so that that people with heart failure can get the right care and treatment as early as possible.
The event takes place in the council offices in Stornoway from 10am till 1pm and then at the neighbouring sports centre between 1pm and 3pm.
Heart failure awareness day
5 May 2016