Belvoir First Aid (BFA) the Vale medical charity (1122209) is please to announce a major sponsorship from Scanmed Medical, the medical equipment provider. Scanmed have donated an OscilloMate 9002 vital signs monitoring unit, worth £2,500 for use at events and in the BFA ambulance. “We are absolutely delighted with this donation’” stated Martin Fagan, BFA’s chairman. “This piece of medical equipment will allow us to monitor vital signs in the patients we treat, help effect appropriate treatment and to be able to effect better handovers to the local ambulance service. We are enormously grateful to Scanmed for their generosity and support for the work we undertake.” The OscilloMate 9002 is a robust and portable life signs monitoring and diagnostic tool that allows continuous measurement of pulse, blood gas, blood pressure and can be set for continuous and interval led monitoring automatically, warning of any variation or life threatening episode thus freeing up medical resource to attend the patient. It is used by major ambulance trusts in their front line vehicles. Brian Collins, the managing Director of Scanmed commented “We are delighted to assist Belvoir First Aid. They do a wonderful job supporting events with their medical cover enabling these events to be held. We wish them all the best with the new equipment we have provided.”