St. John Ambulance Ghana has organized a two-week training programme for its members in preparation for CAN 2008 to be hosted in Ghana in January 2008.
Participants were selected from all the ten regions of Ghana and from Nigeria. Three resource persons from St. John in Avon County in the United Kingdom to which Ghana is twined took participants through the service training course and updated them on the latest first aid protocol.
Participants were taken through topics such as code of conduct for ambulance personnel, cardio pulmonary resuscitation, anatomy and physiology, use of defibrillator and management of trauma among others.
The St. John Ambulance is part of international first aid training and services set up by the British Police in Ghana in 1937 and now operate as a subvented organisation under the Ministry of Health.
It has a mission to train and expose members of the public in the principles and practices of first aid, home nursing and other health related issues to prevent and relieve sickness and injury.
The Executive Secretary of St. John Ambulance Ghana, Mrs. Hilda Commey said St. John hitherto relied on the emergency unit of the 37 Military Hospital, but currently has its own ambulance, thanks to the Ministry of Health.
“This has really helped us to offer better services to our clients.” She said the group of trainees will act as trainers for the larger members of St. John Ambulance Ghana.
“I am hopeful that after the training programme members will be equipped to offer improved services to its clients and also be fully prepared for any eventuality during CAN 2008.”
St. John Avon County presented additional intra ambulance equipment including scoop stretcher, long boards, splints, neck collars and furley folding stretcher to St. John Ambulance Ghana.
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