Action Now to stop young people bleeding to death on our streets, to stem the flow of blood keeping them alive until an ambulance arrives
After our successful launch of The First in a London Community Emergency Public Accessible Bleed Control Cabinet located outside Tesco Express East Dulwich Road, London SE.22 on Thursday 16th September 2021.
We are now launching our second in a London Community Cabinet in the next few weeks which will be located in Peckham SE.15
Please join our campaign to get these life saving cabinets into every borough, every high street every block every community across London & Nationwide.
Designed to prevent catastrophic blood loss following trauma or violence and to help control & stop severe bleeding while waiting for the paramedics to arrive.These cabinets are a vital life saving piece of kit which can be used by first responders or bystanders at the scene and contains an emergency bleed control kit which has the same quality equipment as is found on an ambulance, such as haemostat dressings, gloves, a tourniquet and a chest seal.
Each kit is logged with the Ambulance Service and accessible 24hrs a day, the cabinet is accessed by a code provided by the emergency services. No training is required as the emergency services will talk the user through every step of the way.
In London it takes an ambulance an average of seven minutes to get to the scene of a major emergency; these kits are thus vital to anyone with a catastrophic bleed in an emergency to keep them alive until the ambulance arrives.
These public access cabinets / kits are a vital tool in saving lives. We are excited that London's Second Community Bleed Control Cabinet is about to be installed. We hope that this will be the start of many more cabinets across London Communities and furthermore, Nationwide.we need the communities help
Currently we have 2650 portable kits and 250 cabinets across the UK
Lynne Baird, founder of the Daniel Baird Foundation, Pride of Britain Award Winner said, "In the year ending 2020 there were around 46,000 offences involving knives or sharp instrument(s) in England & Wales. A person can bleed to death in four minutes from a catastrophic bleed therefore early intervention is essential." These cabinets (which can also include a defibrillator) are vital in bridging this gap and ensuring people do not die on the street.
Mike ,Managing Director of Turtle Engineering said, "Bleeding from trauma injuries can prove fatal in three to five minutes so we are making it our mission to get the cabinets and bleed control kits truly accessible in all major towns and cities throughout the UK."
Even more concerning is that it can take over 20 mins for an ambulance to reach rural locations where the risk of serious injury from agricultural machinery, road traffic accidents and domestic accidents is further elevated.
We are very proud to be working in collaboration with Lynne at The Daniel Baird Foundation and Mike at Turtle Engineering on this Life Saving Nationwide Campaign. They have trail-blazed the need for accessible bleed control kits/cabinets in large cities throughout the UK . We want to raise awareness as well as money to purchase as many cabinets as we can for London .
This project closed unsuccessfully on 4th January 2022