Red Cross hosts first aid training in Alotau

RED Cross’ Milne Bay branch completed its first community-based first aid (CBFA) training, with 15 participants attending a five-day training at Mutuyuwa village in Alotau last week.
The training was facilitated and conducted by First Aid national coordinator/trainer Kawai Wotangas and assisted by nine Milne Bay Red Cross first aid trainers.
The training was also used to assess Milne Bay Red Cross branch first aid trainers in a village setting to qualify as first aid trainers.
Wotangas told the participants the training was conducted for her to assess the trainers to be able to have qualified local first aid trainers for the branch and the number of first aiders would be increased for the benefit of the branch after they completed the training and decided to join the branch.
She said due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) situation, training had been scaled down nationwide.
The training covered first aid topics such as emergency care aims and casualty reports, stable side position, cardio pulmonary resuscitation, lack of oxygen and circulatory disorders, general medical conditions, bandages/sling carriages, wounds and bleeding, special bleeding management, burns and scalds, fractures and soft tissue injuries, spinal injury management, fracture management, poisons and snake bite management and hand-washing, HIV/AIDS and the Covid-19.