A Bleed Box is being installed at an Ainsworth park today, after a 19-year-old man was stabbed in February.
The installation will be attended by councillors and Kelly Brown, the mother of Rhamero West who was fatally stabbed in Old Trafford in September 2021, aged just 16.
Kelly said that she sees bleed kits as a fourth emergency service that can help save lives.
She said: “They can help stem that bleed until emergency services get to them.
“You don’t need to be first aid trained to use it, it has a simple, colour-coded body map on the door of the cabinet and you just follow the colour code and apply pressure to the wound until the ambulance service gets there.
“I believe if there was a kit available at the time of losing my son, there’s a chance he would have been here today.”
At 1pm on Saturday, Cllr Jackie Harris, Cllr Shahbaz Arif Cllr Dene Vernon and James Daly MP will be at the Bury Croquet Club for the unveiling of the bleed cabinet. 
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