Kelly Park wants teachers at her daughter's school to be trained in giving her crucial medication.
The mother of a girl with a rare health condition wants her teachers to administer her life-saving medication.Her mother Kelly Park wants private training for Isabella's teachers to give her injections, after the local hospital said it would not train them.
The hospital said despite concerns, national guidelines only trained staff can administer it must be followed., which has more than 88,000 signatures, and she hopes it will result in government interest.The hydrocortisone injections Isabella is given replaces hormones that, because of her condition, her body does not naturally produce.
Currently, specialist training is needed before someone is allowed to give an IM injection, meaning even in an emergency Isabella must wait for ambulance services that Ms Park said are "already overstretched". The reason teachers cannot administer the injection is that, unlike an EpiPen, it does not come pre-loaded.
St Gregory's Business manager Adam Sheldon, who has has been in contact with Kelly, said: "The underlying issue is that the clear, unambiguous advice from the NHS is that intramuscular injections can and should only be administered by staff who have had training which gives them the competence to administer this injection type."However, Ms Park said preparing the injection is simple, and"If you do [give the injection] and it's not needed, no harm will come," she said.
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