A BARRY business his helping a life-saving charity deliver the goods by kitting it out with some approved equipment.
Sully Moors Road-based Printmet Ltd is enabling Blood Bikes Wales to strap NHS approved containers with flat racks so the volunteers can safely transport their medical supplies.
Blood Bikes Wales recently bought two new motorcycles with donations made by its supporters in Wales.
One bought late last year and has gone into service supporting the Aneurin Bevan Health Board on weekends in Gwent.
The bike is fitted with off-the-shelf panniers and top box so needed no modification to go into service.
The second machine, bought in March, will be used mainly by the mid-week team who will be delivering frozen donor breast milk to neo-natal baby units across four of the seven health boards in South Wales.
The donor milk, collected from the Birmingham Women’s Hospital or Southmead Hospital in Bristol, has to be carried in NHS approved containers so a flat rack is required to strap them to the machine.
A Blood Bikes spokesman said Printmet came to the service’s aid, free of charge, and he thanked the company for its work.
He said: “Having put a basic design together and discussed it with manager Mike Gibbons, a template was cut out of chromed aluminium tread plate and taken to Robert Bevan Motorcycles in Cardiff where the new bike was being prepared.”
For details, visit www.bloodbikeswales.org.uk or email membership@bloodbikeswales.org.uk or pr@bloodbikeswales.org.uk
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