Calls for bleed kits to be installed in every major bus station and on bus routes in areas affected by serious violence have been backed by the London Assembly.
These kits were designed for warzones - that they are wanted in transport hubs tells you all you need to know about the safety of public transport in London these days.
Assembly Members unanimously passed a motion requesting that Transport for London (TfL) to work with the London Ambulance Service (LAS) to ensure the kits will be made available across the network. Bleed control kits help stem severe bleeding from deep wounds before emergency services arrive – a "potentially valuable method of saving lives".
Is it saving valuable lives though?
The motion is non-binding, which means the mayor is not obliged to implement the recommendation.
Well, surely they’ll agree, since they won’t want their oh-so-valuable diversity killing one another off…
Elly Baker, Labour's transport spokesperson proposed the motion. "I've heard too often from young people that they don't always feel as safe as they should do travelling," she said. "Passing this motion will show that we are listening to young people and backing the investigation of a potentially valuable method of saving lives."
Yes, let’s not find ways of stopping the stabbing, let’s just make it less potentially lethal when they do it.
You will only make travelling by public transport less potentially lethal, as long as the usual suspects don't steal them. I understand publicly displayed defibrillators are going for a nice little sum.
ReplyDeletePenseivat
I should be shocked, but I’m not…
DeleteShut your mouth for the sake of diversity
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See the coming post on Essex Police and their trial of recognition cameras for that!
DeleteI find it difficult to be against any measures for having materials to hand for first aid. More to the point, I think that first aid should be taught in schools, and all motor vehicles should carry first aid kits. And before you ask, I have one in my car, another in my kitchen, and a third in the bathroom. I also think that it would be helpful for more people to volunteer for first aid training.
ReplyDeleteIn writing the above, I recognise that there has to be limits. I don't have a defibrillator, for example, and I don't think my first aid kits would deal with a deep stab wound or broken limbs. Not only that, but just having a first aid kit of any kind isn't much use if nobody knows how to use it, with the problem getting progressively more serious the more elaborate the kit provision.
The modern defibrillator is fool proof, but the only thing likely to trigger a heart attack are the fares!
DeleteSurely a Koran would be more appropriate for dealing with a stabbing?
ReplyDeleteA Koran won't be of any use. The paper pages are rubbish at soaking up blood, allegedly.
DeletePenseivat
Little use as toilet roll too 😬
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