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Staff abseil off hospital
Monday 24th December 2007, 10:57AM GMT.
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Medical staff launched themselves from on top of a hospital in Wolverhampton.
Six people abseiled from the top of the accident and emergency building at New Cross Hospital to tell people about a new service which can save the lives of people who have had a stroke.
The Express & Star’s Tim Thursfield filmed the abseil, which was done to highlight thrombolysis treatment.
It has a high success rate of giving patients a full recovery, but must be administered within two hours of the first symptoms.
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