Free heart screening

Hampshire Cricket Foundation & CRY helping to save lives

Hampshire Cricket Foundation, and Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) have delivered free heart screening sessions for the local community at the Ageas Bowl.

A team of CRY’s cardiac experts screened 200 patients, as part of an initiative which looks to prevent sudden cardiac death in young people, and eight young people from the screening were referred for immediate follow up.

Funded by the Hampshire Cricket Foundation, the screenings are part of the charity’s ‘Changing Lives. Saving Lives’ initiative which aims to deliver a healthier future for people across the county.

Stuart Robertson, Hampshire Cricket Foundation CEO said: “We are delighted to support CRY’s cardiac screening programme and I would like to thank the many generous donors to the Hampshire Cricket Foundation that have enabled us to do this.”

Dr Steven Cox, Chief Executive of Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) said: “It is a great honour

to be associated with the new ‘Changing Lives. Saving Lives’ initiative spearheaded by Hampshire Cricket Foundation. Every week in the UK, around 12 young people under the age of 35 die suddenly from a previously undiagnosed heart condition.”