Articles Archive for 16 January 2012
A nine year-old Cub Scout used the first aid skills he learned in Scouting to save his grandfather’s life.
Lewis’s grandfather, Graham, who suffers from varicose veins and a mild form of haemophilia, knocked his leg while his grandson was round, and began to bleed severely from one of his veins. He called out for help, and quick-thinking Lewis ran to the bathroom, fetched a bundle of toilet roll, and used it to apply pressure to the injury and slow the bleeding.
Reassuring Graham, he said ‘Don’t panic, I have learned about …
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