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Blood on the move

They have become another emergency service and they are saving lives. A team of motorbike riders has been spreading its net across the South to answer the call when a hospital urgently needs medical supplies.

The bikers are volunteers who are on standby during the night and at weekends to deliver urgent blood and baby milk to hospital. And they do it for free.

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