The kits include bandages, tourniquets and gloves that can be used while waiting for an ambulance
Life-saving bleed control kits have been placed around Coventry to help the victims of knife crime.
More than 200 of the specially-created packs designed to control bleeding after someone is stabbed or cut have been placed across the West Midlands.
The kits include bandages, tourniquets and gloves that can be used to help someone after a stabbing has occurred. The region’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), David Jamieson, has provided funding for them.
They are designed to be easy to use and to keep an injured person alive until they can receive treatment from a paramedic or doctor.
The PCC hopes the 227 kits across the region - including in Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Dudley, Birmingham, Walsall, and Solihull - will rise to 400.
In Coventry kits will be put at 16 locations, including at pubs The Oak, The Phoenix and Quids Inn on Gosford Street, as well as other city centre pubs such as The Yard, Slug and Lettuce, and The Botanist.
On average it takes an ambulance seven minutes to reach a patient, but bleeding from serious injuries can prove fatal in as little as three minutes.
Speaking of the kits, Mr Jamieson said: “The bleed control kits are a simple, yet smart idea that have been designed to save a life. That is why I took little convincing that we should roll them out across our region.
“Sadly, knife crime has been rising across the country in the last decade, and so too has the number of fatalities.
“These new kits are good value for money and if they save just one life then they will have been worth the investment."
