Cardiac Arrest: Foundation Trains 105 FAAN Workers On Response
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By Adeyemi Adeleye/Bolu Akindoyin
The Nigerian Heart Foundation (NHF) on Monday educated no fewer than 105 workers of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) on primary life help for victims of cardiac arrest in airports.
Dr Olufemi Mobolaji-Lawal, the Chairman, Executive Council of NHF, mentioned that the coaching on Automated External Defibrillator (AED) for primary Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) had turn out to be crucial to safeguard lives.
Mobolaji- Lawal recalled that NHF and different companions had earlier donated some emergency tools to the FAAN by the Federal Ministry of Health.
He mentioned that ministry had additionally directed that every one the workers of FAAN be educated.
NHF boss mentioned: “Today is the primary of these actions and it’s to coach workers of FAAN within the primary life help, that’s primary cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
“This is the resuscitation of anyone who has slumped, whose coronary heart isn’t respiration.
“We know that a part of that cardiopulmonary resuscitation is using the tools known as AED.
“When the heart is breathing ineffectively, it cannot pump blood. This training is to equip FAAN staff on how to resuscitate people that collapse all of a sudden in the airport, and how to use the equipment.”
He mentioned that NHF, as a Non-Governmental Organisation, had been within the enterprise of teaching folks and coaching them on the way to reside wholesome and lengthy.
According to him, the NHF has been donating such tools to a number of different organisations and coaching has been carried out in some corporations.
“NHF has been able to do this through partners and we need people to partner with us in order to deliver those trainings,” Mobolaji- Lawal mentioned.
Dr Mutiu Rufai, the Guest Lecturer and a Medical Emergency Care Practitioner, mentioned that cardiopulmonary resuscitation concerned a process the place the rescuer compressed the chest and breath for the victims of cardiac arrest.
Rufai, who famous that emergency instances had been two – pre-hospital and in-hospital- mentioned that less than one per cent of victims of cardiac arrest had been being rescued, due to the place it occurred and lack of coaching.
“The inhabitants of folks that know what to do could be very small.
“The in-hospital cardiac arrest emergency is better, because people must have been trained and they recognise when it is coming,” the licensed teacher beneath American Heart Association, mentioned.
He mentioned that he had educated no fewer than 30,000 folks in numerous organisations on cardiopulmonary resuscitation involving choking, hunch, cardiac arrest and different heart-related ailments.
Also talking, Dr Bilqis Ibrahim, the General Manager of the Association of Medical Clinics of FAAN, mentioned that beneficiaries weren’t solely FAAN workers but in addition included different businesses like Customs, Immigration, Police, Air Force, Quarantine amongst others on the airport.
Describing airports as gateway into the nation, Ibrahim mentioned that at any time when there was an emergency, employees ought to know what to do to rescue lives.
One of the individuals, Mrs Funke Ojekale, a FAAN workers, who described the coaching “as very rewarding”, mentioned that it had enhanced her with primary methods to take care of such emergencies, and the way to resuscitate the sufferer inside a really quick time.
Ojekale, mentioned: “Now, I am in a better position to teach others around me, so that together, we can save lives in emergencies.”
On his personal half, Mr Odion Andrew, additionally a workers of FAAN, who appreciated the organisers, mentioned that he was able to cascade the coaching to others.
“This is the essence of the training – to know and let others know,” he mentioned. (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
Edited by Vivian Ihechu
