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a day ago
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Bleed kit and defibrillator installed in phone box
A new defibrillator and bleed kit have been installed in a disused phone box as part of a community youth project. The emergency kit is located in the newly renovated King George Telephone Box outside of St Paul's Church on Portland Square, Bristol. The telephone box has been cleaned and painted by student volunteers from the City of Bristol College and the King's Trust. Dan Broadbent, event manager at Circomedia who started the project, said: "The defibrillator has actually been used three times already and it's only been there for a month. Before this there wasn't a defibrillator anywhere near here so we thought it was a really important thing to do." More news stories for Bristol Watch the latest Points West Listen to the latest news for Bristol Mr Broadbent added: "I think everyone has to do their part in the community. We've been here for 20 years and we wanted to do our part to support people." Muna Shafie is a lecturer at City of Bristol College and team leader at the King's Trust, working with young people who are not in education or training. As part of the programme, the young people have to do a community project - and decided to renovate the phone box ready to house the emergency kits. "It was really impactful to get young people engaged," Ms Shafie said. "It was good for them to have that experience and be able to give back. They were really keen and enthusiastic." Ibrahim Yusuf, one of the students who helped paint the phone box, said: "It was fun, the people I was working with, it's something you just enjoy doing. Giving back to the community." All materials had been donated and the equipment, worth £5,000, was donated by the Great Western Air Ambulance and Bin the Blade. Follow BBC Bristol on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to us on email or via WhatsApp on 0800 313 4630. Bleed control kits installed to help save lives What's inside a bleed kit and how to use them 'Lifesaving' bleed kits installed using grants
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a day ago
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Bleed kit and defibrillator installed in phone box
A new defibrillator and bleed kit have been installed in a disused phone box as part of a community youth project. The emergency kit is located in the newly renovated King George Telephone Box outside of St Paul's Church on Portland Square, Bristol. The telephone box has been cleaned and painted by student volunteers from the City of Bristol College and the King's Trust. Dan Broadbent, event manager at Circomedia who started the project, said: "The defibrillator has actually been used three times already and it's only been there for a month. Before this there wasn't a defibrillator anywhere near here so we thought it was a really important thing to do." More news stories for Bristol Watch the latest Points West Listen to the latest news for Bristol Mr Broadbent added: "I think everyone has to do their part in the community. We've been here for 20 years and we wanted to do our part to support people." Muna Shafie is a lecturer at City of Bristol College and team leader at the King's Trust, working with young people who are not in education or training. As part of the programme, the young people have to do a community project - and decided to renovate the phone box ready to house the emergency kits. "It was really impactful to get young people engaged," Ms Shafie said. "It was good for them to have that experience and be able to give back. They were really keen and enthusiastic." Ibrahim Yusuf, one of the students who helped paint the phone box, said: "It was fun, the people I was working with, it's something you just enjoy doing. Giving back to the community." All materials had been donated and the equipment, worth £5,000, was donated by the Great Western Air Ambulance and Bin the Blade. Follow BBC Bristol on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to us on email or via WhatsApp on 0800 313 4630. Bleed control kits installed to help save lives What's inside a bleed kit and how to use them 'Lifesaving' bleed kits installed using grants
BBC News
a day ago
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- BBC News
Bleed kit and defibrillator installed in Bristol phone box
A new defibrillator and bleed kit have been installed in a disused phone box as part of a community youth emergency kit is located in the newly renovated King George Telephone Box outside of St Paul's Church on Portland Square, telephone box has been cleaned and painted by student volunteers from the City of Bristol College and the King's Broadbent, event manager at Circomedia who started the project, said: "The defibrillator has actually been used three times already and it's only been there for a month. Before this there wasn't a defibrillator anywhere near here so we thought it was a really important thing to do." Mr Broadbent added: "I think everyone has to do their part in the community. We've been here for 20 years and we wanted to do our part to support people."Muna Shafie is a lecturer at City of Bristol College and team leader at the King's Trust, working with young people who are not in education or part of the programme, the young people have to do a community project - and decided to renovate the phone box ready to house the emergency kits. "It was really impactful to get young people engaged," Ms Shafie said."It was good for them to have that experience and be able to give back. They were really keen and enthusiastic."Ibrahim Yusuf, one of the students who helped paint the phone box, said: "It was fun, the people I was working with, it's something you just enjoy doing. Giving back to the community."All materials had been donated and the equipment, worth £5,000, was donated by the Great Western Air Ambulance and Bin the Blade.
BBC News
6 days ago
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Barepot gets first solar-powered defibrillator in West Cumbria
A hamlet with just one road in and out has seen the area's first solar and wind-powered defibrillator being near Workington, is the first place in West Cumbria to have such a Stephenson, from the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS), said she had worked with the defibrillator's manufacturers to come up with a solution to the lack of power in some rural community resuscitation engagement officer said: "Every minute that a person in cardiac arrest doesn't receive effective CPR and the use of a defibrillator the chances of survival drastically reduce." The device will give residents of Barepot access to the defibrillator 24 hours a day, she added, bypassing potential issues with electrical supply in the rural riverside hamlet."Often when looking for suitable locations for defibrillators, a power source can be problematic, so this is an excellent alternative," Workington Town councillor Mike Heaslip said. The authority and NWAS worked together to deliver the device, with residents of Barepot - which has fewer than 100 houses - also raising £300 towards the who chairs the town council's environmental committee, said the authority hoped to install similar devices elsewhere."We also hope that this sets a trend of these being installed further afield," he said. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
BBC News
7 days ago
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Leicester man raising CPR awareness after saving friend's life
A man who saved his best friend's life after he went into cardiac arrest in the back of his car is fundraising for a defibrillator to be put in his Barroso, 44, from Leicester, stepped into action when his best friend Amit Sammani, 43, fell ill last month at the city's HB Health and Mr Samani's wife administered CPR before paramedics took over - a move credited with helping to save his Barroso said he acted on instinct and now wanted to raise awareness of CPR and preventative health, adding: "Just because you're fit doesn't mean it can't happen to you." Mr Sammani started feeling unwell about 30 minutes into his session with Mr Barroso at his gym in Ash wife, Anisha Sammani, 42, was called and she came to pick him up, but her husband's condition had Sammani was told it would take about an hour for an ambulance to arrive and that it would be quicker for her to drive her husband to A&E herself. Mr Barroso ended up driving the couple so Mrs Sammani could be in the back with Mr Sammani, but his condition developed into a seizure, and they were advised to park up and begin CPR at a Barroso and Mrs Sammani took it in turns to administer CPR for 15 minutes until paramedics arrived to work on Mr Sammani for about 90 was taken to Glenfield Hospital and placed in an induced coma before waking a few days later, and has since been Sammani said without the CPR from Mr Barroso and Mrs Sammani "I'd be dead".Mrs Sammani said it had been "a long 15 minutes" waiting for paramedics and she had been shaking with shock when they took husband said he was told by doctors if he had not been in such good shape, he likely would not have survived, and that the CPR he had received had also helped."I already held Helder in a high regard because he helped me get into good shape, but even more so now after this," he Barroso says he does not feel "like a hero in any way shape or form" and now plans to run a marathon for the British Heart Foundation, which is a challenge as he "hates running".He also plans to undertake a three-day first aid course and add a defibrillator to his gym.
