Daily Echo, 4th February 2020
Two hundred young people, including Eastleigh MP Paul Holmes, received free heart screenings provided by Hampshire Cricket Foundation in collaboration with Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY).
Hampshire Cricket Foundation Director, Stuart Robertson, 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, especially those from our annual Ladies Lashes Lunch that have enabled us to do this.”
CRY’s Chief Executive, Dr Steven Cox, stated: “It is a great honour to be associated with the new ‘Changing Lives. Saving Lives’ initiative spearheaded by Hampshire Cricket Foundation. The campaign shares the same ethos as CRY and we were delighted to bring our team of experts to the Ageas Bowl. Every week in the UK, around 12 young people under the age of 35 die suddenly from a previously undiagnosed heart condition. 80 per cent of these deaths will occur with no prior symptoms. However, we know that cardiac screening saves lives and in Italy, where screening is mandatory for all young people engaged in organised sport, they have reduced the incidence of young sudden cardiac death by a staggering 89 per cent.”
