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BMA funds medical charity Citizen Aid
The British Medical Association (BMA) has awarded a charity which aims to boost public resilience to terror attacks through teaching life-saving skills £35,000 in funding.
Doctor-led charity Citizen Aid has received financial and technical aid from the BMA so as to create new training material for members of the public on how to respond to terrorist-related medical crises.
Pali Hungin, the BMA president, said: “The BMA is incredibly proud to support Citizen Aid in its effort to empower members of the public through increasing knowledge and understanding of potentially life-saving medical skills. As the injuries and loss of life suffered during the recent terrible attacks in London and Manchester have demonstrated, any steps that can be taken to allow the public to support doctors and other emergency service responders is to be applauded.”
The charity, created in 2016 by two civilian and two military doctors, gives practical skills and knowledge to the public on how to provide first-response assistance to victims of knife, gunshot and bomb-blast injuries. It draws on military training and experience with hopes to increase the public’s ability to provide life-saving care in the aftermath of such attacks.
BMA funding will be used to further improve the charity’s educational reach, including an online training programme and a face-to-face training scheme.
Brigadier Timothy Hodgetts, one of the co-founders of Citizen Aid, added: “We are very grateful that the BMA has been able to support us in our work. We’re looking to build on our existing strengths by producing a next-generation version of our app as well as training materials for schools and the wider public. We’re also looking to produce more short educational films and public engagement events.”
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