'Bleed kits' for more schools

SECONDARY schools across Carmarthenshire are set to be given critical bleed control kits as part of an ongoing campaign to equip communities with the potentially lifesaving packs.

- IAN LEWIS

The scheme is being spearheaded by Heartbeat Trust UK, under its trustee, former High Sheriff of West Glamorgan, Melanie James.

The kits, which have already been rolled out to secondary schools in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, contain military grade equipment and a simple to follow body map instruction card. The main elements are a tourniquet, fox chest seal and haemostatic gauze together with blunt edged shears, gloves, foil blanket, resuscitation shield and trauma fix bandage and they are designed to help with major blood loss while the injured party waits for the emergency services to attend.