First aid training held at PMAS-AAUR

A two-day training programme on rescue and first aid concluded here on Thursday at Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi (PMAS-AAUR).

The training was organized in collaboration with Punjab Emergency Services Rescue 1122 with an aim to enable the University's staff to be self-sufficient in the hour of need during any disaster, tragedy, accident and proper way of delivering information of any disaster.

Rescue 1122 master trainers Mubeenul Rasheed and Ali Shair provided hands on practice to handle emergency situations including emergency response, lifesaving skills, first aid and rescue in case of an emergency.

The trainers demonstrated how to provide first aid, basic life support (CPR), fracture treatment, bite of insects like snakes, burn treatment and safe transportation of any affected person.

The participants were also imparted critical skills like placing an unconscious casualty into the recovery position, stopping bleeding and elevation bandaging injuries and preventing the worsening of the patient's condition and promoting recovery.

PMAS-AAUR Vice Chancellor Dr Qamar Zaman distributed certificates among the participants of the training.

While addressing the participants, he said that such programmes were necessary because many of us were unaware about the first aid.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 23^rd, 2020.