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Video: Red Cross recertifies Gombe NEMA on basic first aid
Chima Azubuike, Gombe
No fewer than eighteen (18) staff of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), zonal office are undergoing a two day, recertification course in basic first aid organised in collaboration with the Nigeria Red Cross Society.
Speaking on the nature of the course on Thursday, the head of operations, NEMA Gombe field office, Simon Katu, said this is in line with management’s position on the need for members of staff to use equipment to the best of their abilities.
According to Katu, when members of his field office have this basic knowledge stepping it down become key and alot easier.
He said, “In Stepping it down we have our stakeholders, who are quite knowledgeable. So even when we need to step it down for to other agencies we still call on these stakeholders because they are key in doing this work. As much as the community needs this training the agency and it staff needs the training to carry out the work and interventions it has been doing.
“This training is to equip the staff who go out to have contact with communities and in this sense will step down the training as well. By training the staff we are well equipped to handle the community, in a nutshell, the training is a wholistic approach. For the zonal office we are 18 and every of the 18 staff are being trained including the drivers and administrative staff.”
Katu added that the recertification occurs every three years, stressing that “So when you come in as a new staff you will do the induction training and some other trainings that come like the advance for those that have done the basic. So every three years be it that you have been in the agency that longer or shorter you need to recertify yourself because there are improved methods.
“Aside this training there are workshops, annual trainings NEMA staff engage in. Some are not field based but community based development trainings. Such as trainings in conflict management, community based early warning systems, emergency response procedure.”
Also speaking, National First Aid Trainer, Nigeria Red Cross Society, Bashir Umar, said he expects all participants to be properly refreshed.
“When accidents happened we need to give them first aid treatment before they are taken to the hospital or medical people arrive at the scene.
“We are Red cross and NEMA is a good partner because as a coordinating body we know what it entails. Those who have the knowledge it will serve as refresher and those who don’t have it will be like a beginning to know what to do.
“So that we will know it is a survivor we are taking to the hospital,” Umar, Red cross first aid trainer said.
