A MOTORCYCLIST who volunteers his spare time to help save lives has told his story to the Cambrian News.

Adrian Cromey, from Llanystumdwy, is one of 25 motorbike riders who transport vital materials across the country, speeding up diagnoses, keeping newborns healthy and saving the NHS hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Adrian, who was in the British Army for 23 years but now works full-time in the Asda store in Pwllheli, volunteers for Blood Bikes Wales, an organisation which transports plasma, blood, baby milk and anything else that the NHS might need relocating at no cost to the taxpayer.

It is estimated that for each pound Blood Bike Wales receives in donations, the NHS will save at least five.

Adrian, who has volunteered for the bike charity since October, explained: “It used to be that it cost £70 to transport a blood sample from say, Holyhead to Ysbyty Gwynedd via taxi, so £140 for a round trip. We can do the same trip for the price of a tank of fuel saving the critically underfunded health service valuable pounds.

“I think we saved something close to £300,000 for the NHS last year, a huge sum when you think about it, you could buy a lot of medical equipment with that money.

“You never know what we’re going to be needed for, sometimes we have to deliver plasma to the scene of a road traffic accident and sometimes we’re delivering breast milk to an incubator, you never know when you’re going to be needed.”

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