PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS TAKE PART IN FIRST AID TRAINING

August 24, 2006

Teachers from three Belize City primary schools will go back to their class rooms with better first aid skills. This summer, teachers from Belize Elementary, Humming Bird Elementary and Saint Joseph Primary schools took part in the first aid training organized by the Belize Red Cross under the Caribbean First Aid project. Belize Red Cross Project Officer, Zaira Martinez tells about the training.           

Zaira Martinez

“Well it includes aims and definitions of first aid, CPR which is part of dealing with an unusual casualty or breathing emergencies of CPR, dealing with a choking casualty, dealing with an unconscious casualty, bleeding, burns, fractures, and sudden illnesses normally things like heart attack, epilepsy, heat emergency even and often times people have questions about other more minor incidents such as fainting, nose bleeding and that kind of thing.” 

We asked Martinez if people in the districts will also benefit from the project.           

Zaira Martinez:

“We have done two communities in Orange Walk the Red Cross Society in Orange walk to form the challenge of doing do communities. I believe there were fire bun and Santa Cruz. They also had members of other nearby communities who took part in those training, we want to do the same thing in Corozal, Stann Creek, Toledo, and since Belize City and Cayo is already a part of our main focus we do want to extend the project to a least two communities in each district.” 

Zaira Martinez, Project Officer at the Belize Red Cross.           

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