Bearing in mind the prevalence of cardiovascular and related health emergencies in recent time, Anambra State Governor’s wife, Mrs Nonye Soludo has included emergency basic lifesaving skills in the teaching curriculum of her social programme, “Healthy Living with Nonye Soludo” which will be domiciled in primary and secondary schools in the state.
The Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike who disclosed this in his office in Awka, explained that by teaching school children basic life-saving techniques, they would have been at home with managing common emergencies and become very useful in such cases in and outside their schools environments.
Emergency basic lifesaving skills are initial practical response procedures for managing medical emergencies before a patient is taken to a hospital.
Health experts believe that one of the major causes of deaths during such emergencies is absence of someone with elementary lifesaving skills.
Basic life-saving skills include; cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR, recognizing signs of strokes, Automatic External Defibrillator, AED and how it helps save lives, Heimlich manoeuvre, severe allergic reactions and preventing death by anaphylaxis, responding to someone experiencing a seizure, and being familiar with basic first aid, among others.
According to Dr Obidike, having been approved by the Governor’s wife, Mrs Soludo, as a major course in the teaching manual for the school clubs, selected students from the six education zones in Anambra State would be trained by experts after which the trained students would train their colleagues.
He said that Mrs Soludo’s clear passion for the formation of the school clubs, revalidates her love for healthy living, and determination to institute the philosophy in the state’s school culture.
Healthy Living with Nonye Soludo is a new project and social campaign of the Wife of the Governor of Anambra State, Mrs Nonye Soludo.
The project aims to set up Healthy Living Clubs in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in Anambra State that will serve as formative grounds for education and exposure of school children, teenagers and young people to the basics of healthy living, and how they can incorporate the best living and wellness principles into their daily lives.
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