TRT World reports from London on citizenAID Turkey’s TRT World reports on the citizenAID App. The app is avaliabler to download worldwide and while we’re currently working on international versions – with, for example, region-appropriate emergency numbers – the key messages apply wherever you are.
The team from citizen AID improvise a tourniquet on the sofa Victoria Derbyshire ✔@VictoriaLIVE What would you do in a terror attack? @ThecitizenAID says focus on first aid as the emergency services deal with threat. Here are some tips. 11:02 AM - Jan 4, 2017 Brigadier T Hodgetts, Mr A Thurgood, Mr P Gadge & Chief Insp R Harding are on the couch with Victoria Derbyshire, showing how to practice improvised tourniquets on a rolled up towel in a trouser leg. It is IMPORTANT not to try this on yourself, it really hurts and will cut off the circulation to your limb.
BBC News reports on citizen Aid Terrorism ‘first-aid training needed’ BBC News reports on Citizen AID People need to learn lifesaving skills in case they are caught up in a terror attack in the UK, a team of senior military and civilian medics has said. They say people need to know how to help each other because it could take some time before it is deemed safe for paramedics to arrive on the scene. Their app, called CitizenAID, offers step-by-step advice. The idea is supported by counter-terrorism police. Security services say a UK terror attack is highly likely. ‘Run, hide, tell’ Although an individual’s chance of being caught up in an incident is small, Brig Tim Hodgetts and Prof Sir Keith
