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Docs use strike time to teach life-saving skills

STRIKING doctors turned their picket lines into classrooms yesterday, teaching parents and carers how to save children’s lives.

Junior paediatricians at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London decided to “give back” to the supporting community and set up a first aid workshop on the picket line.

The initiative proved popular across the country, with CPR classes taking place outside several other hospitals.

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