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Milly Vincent

Leeds Festival 2022: What to do in a medical emergency and should you ring 999?

Leeds Festival advises anyone who needs medical assistance to contact the site’s security, stewards, or campsite staff on duty for help. If there is no one nearby to help in an emergency ring 999.

If you’ve experienced a minor injury or ailment that isn’t an emergency speak to any of the festival staff listed above - they will be wearing festival tabards. The festival’s medical tent or welfare tent will be able to get you the help you need - both are open 24 hours a day.

If you need to visit the medical tent, it is located in the Village. Ask a member of staff, who will get you there safely.

Read More: Leeds Festival 2022 site map, postcode, campsite details and where to pick up wristbands

Visit the festival’s welfare tent to talk to someone “for any reason”, including support, advice on drugs, legal highs, sexual health, if you’ve “overdone it”, or if you’re stranded. It is located near the medical tent, and you can ask a steward to help you get there.

Leeds Festival’s website states: “There are over 1,500 security, stewards and campsite staff on duty, all of which wear our festival tabards. They should be able to help you or obtain the necessary response you require.

“If a crime is being committed and there is a risk of injury or of serious damage to property, please contact a member of staff immediately. If in the unlikely event you cannot find someone, please call 999.

“If you need to report a non-emergency crime or to provide information on a crime whilst attending the festival, please call 101.”

If you have a chronic condition such as epilepsy, asthma and diabetes, Leeds festival warns that you should bring all of the medication that you'll need for your stay at the festival to avoid needing hospital treatment. It also warns that some performances contain "pyrotechnics, lasers, smoke machines, strobe lighting/special effects".

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