V Festival 2011 gets under way with bumps, trips and falls
V Festival goers were getting themselves into the party mood for this weekend’s V Festival but not without a few injuries.
Over 85,000 people have descended on Weston Park for the areas biggest music festival and already West Midlands Ambulance Service, in partnership with Venture Event Medical Management and St. John Ambulance have been busy providing medical cover at this year’s V Festival.
The organisations’ staff and volunteers, of which there are more than 200, are operating a medical centre on site, along with a command and control centre which is co-ordinating ambulances and other medical staff who are stationed within the main arena and in the campsite areas. They will be on hand to assess and treat anyone who should become ill or injured during the weekend.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “It’s been a busy start for the staff and volunteers. By six o’clock this morning, on-site ambulance crews had been called out 53 times. 242 people have been treated at the on-site medical centre collectively by St. John Ambulance volunteers and West Midlands Ambulance Service staff. Ten people went to hospital. The vast majority of cases were minor injuries, including trips, bumps and falls. Many were alcohol-related.”
