SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — At the College and Career Academy at Pruden in Suffolk Wednesday morning, the Western Tidewater Health District was offering training for an event they hope they’ll never have to use.
“We have schoolteachers and educators here today,” said Dylan Evans with the Virginia Department of Health, “and we’re providing run-hide-fight concepts as well as practical application of how to apply direct pressure, how to pack a wound and also how to apply a tourniquet.”
The initiative is called Stop the Bleed, and it supports a Virginia law signed in 2025 which requires school buildings, both elementary and secondary, to have Stop the Bleed kits, as well as a training program…