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| KATIE - SUPER HERO! |
The dust has settled on last Friday’s BBC Children in Need
appeal, but here at Village News we have always felt that to a greater or
lesser extent we are all in Need at various times in our lives. No more so than
a driver on a 358 bus on Children in Need day.
Fourteen-year-old local resident and 14th Bromley scout...and now super hero, Katie Haig, takes up the story.
“I was coming home from [Bishop Justus C of E] school after netball. The bus driver pulled over
and opened the cab door and then collapsed out of his cab which is quite high
up, before he could say anything. No one else knew first aid and everyone was
getting off the bus apart from my friend and me. I came down from the back of
the bus and telephoned 999 and told them what had happened. I then gave the ‘phone
to a lady and put the bus driver in the recovery position.”
The bus driver regained consciousness. Katie continues, “I
then asked him if anything hurt and he said that his head did. It was very red so
all the blood was rushing to his head...he was lying with his head on the
bottom of the slope on the bus. So I put loads of coats under his head so he
would be upright so that all the blood wouldn’t keep rushing to his head. Then
he started shivering and shaking so I asked my friends for all of their coats
and put them over him. He then asked if I would stay with him until the ambulance
came. I said “yes” and I did.
“The ambulance arrived very quickly, in about ten minutes.”
“When the paramedics arrived they told me that I had saved
the bus driver’s life.”
Asked where Katie learnt about the recovery position, she replied
“At scouts” where Katie has gained her stage 3 Emergency Aid badge. The requirements
at this stage are 4 to 5 hours of training and activity assessed by a suitably qualified
adult. These requirements include being able to respond to the needs of an unconscious
patient.
In praising Katie’s actions, The Rev Canon Michael Adams,
vicar of Christ Church, Chislehurst, commented “Katie has done a remarkable
thing and deserves our thanks and applause for her quick thinking, quick witted
response to a crisis. She brings honour to the church she belongs to and to the
scouts as well.”
Whilst we wait for a response from The Scout Association (presumably busy putting a few more training programmes together) we at Village News think Katie deserves not just a badge but a medal. Do you?
Leave your comments below.
YES! Yes she does!!!!!!!!!! :)
ReplyDeleteWell done Katie - you are a very special person - I am sure that bus driver will never ever forget your kind actions. You deserve a very big treat. A medal would be good too.
ReplyDeleteWell done Katie. i know scout training is something you keep for life.
ReplyDeleteYes! What an amazing thing to do. It's so hard to keep calm in an emergency like that. Well done Katy!
ReplyDeleteWhat a credit to her generation. The future is safe... We have Katie!
ReplyDeleteWell done Katie! The bus driver was very lucky you were there to help. And well done 14th Bromley Scout group for encouraging and teaching young people such brilliant skills.
ReplyDeleteWhat a girl! Yes, she deserves recognition for her quick thinking. And what an advert she is for Scouting where such skills are taught as part of their programme. Well done Katie and well done 14th Bromley.
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