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Students Prepare to Stop the Bleed

At the Franklin County Career and Technology Center, a vo- “‘The tourniquets can be used not only in school shoot-
cational high school located in Chambersburg, Pennsylva- ings and situations like that, but playground accidents
nia, that serves grades 10 to 12, Holly McClurkin reports, and classroom accidents. They can be used to stop the
“Members of the Health Occupations Student Association bleeding and save a child’s life before EMS can get to
this week began distributing 130 safety kits to Franklin them,’ Donovan said.
County Schools. Thelma Boateng and Sydney Donovan,
juniors at FCCTC, are leading the project. Each classroom “To prevent significant blood loss, the students are creat-
will receive one kit, and the students will train teachers on ing kits, which will contain supplies that are not typically
how to use the supplies. HOSA is a self-funded organiza- found in a first-aid kit, most notably, a tourniquet. There will
tion, so the students are using money from fundraisers to also be ABD dressing pads, gloves, tape and instructions
pay for the kits. on how to use the supplies. . . . The students have the sup-
plies to make 400 kits, one for each FCS classroom. They
“‘The goal of the campaign is to equip bystanders, like have already given all of the principals in the district a kit.”
teachers and students, to have the tools and training nec-
essary to stop the bleed, so in our kits we give you all the [Published 6:02 pm Friday, February 23, 2018. The full
tools and we give you basic training on how to properly story is available at http://www.state-journal.com/2018
use a tourniquet,’ Boateng said. /02/23/fcctc-students-stop-the-bleed/].

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