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A
road haulage business has renewed its partnership
with Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance by supplying
the charity with Bubble Wrap
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A
road haulage business has renewed its partnership with Kent, Surrey
& Sussex Air Ambulance by supplying the charity with Bubble
Wrap - a vital life-saving piece of equipment. For
the second successive year, family-run Sussex Transport will provide
a year’s supply of the plastic sheeting which is used to keep
each patient warm on their journey to hospital.
Air Ambulance Head of Corporate Relations Cheryl Johnson said: “It
has been discovered that traumatised patients, even in very hot
environments, lose their body heat rapidly. “When
this happens blood clotting takes longer and Bubble Wrap provides
the most effective means of preserving body heat.
It can therefore make the difference between bleeding to death and
survival.” Sussex Transport
specializes in the movement and storage of high value, time critical,
sensitive and fragile freight. It
uses Bubble Wrap for packaging a variety of loads including bathroom
and kitchen products, glass, electronics and machinery – but
one roll will also cover 60 Air Ambulance patients. Managing
director Damian Pulford said: “Who would have thought that
the humble sheet of plastic with air bubbles that we all love to
pop and stamp on for fun, can actually save a life. “Our
drivers spend a lot of their time out on the roads and more than
40 per cent of the Air Ambulance’s call-outs are to road traffic
collisions so it made perfect sense to support them in this way.”
Sussex Transport’s head office
is based in Lancing, West Sussex, but also has divisions which include
Kent Road Haulage and Surrey Road Haulage with a fleet of more than
30 vehicles which are branded with the Air Ambulance logo.
Cheryl added: “We are delighted
that Sussex Transport is supporting us for another year and this
is a perfect example of how businesses can work in partnership with
the Air Ambulance. “They
can really make a difference whether it’s through donations,
employee and customer fundraising or valuable gifts like Bubble
Wrap.” |
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