Ondo government has inaugurated a scheme known as First Aid
Support Team (FAST) Network to train the people of the state on the proper way of
handling accidents victims. This, the Commissioner for Health, Dr Dayo Adeyanju said the
scheme was being introduced to reduce the deaths resulting from accidents.
Already, 40 change agents selected across the states have
been trained on the skill and are expected to traverse the 18 local government areas
of the state to replicate the training among the people.
Adeyanju, who said this at the opening of the training of
the change agents in Akure, the state capital, said the people were being
trained on how to give first aid treatment to victims of accident. He said the FAST scheme was the first in components of
emergency services, which also have the ambulance service and the trauma centre
built to facilitate effective health care delivery for victims of accident in
the state.
According to him, the change agents are expected to train
the commercial vehicle drivers, community people and other groups on the
process of handling accident victims before the arrival of the medical team of
the emergency service.
His words “We have brought on board a complement of
emergency services which is sensitizing and training the commuters on our
highway on a network that we called FAST meaning First Aid Support Team, and
this basically is as a result of our determination to reduce the mortality and
morbidity as a result of road traffic accidents."
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