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First-aid training programme

IDUKKI: K. Francis George, MP will inaugurate the first-aid training programme and distribution of first-aid kits in two grama panchayats in the district at a function here on November 1.

The office-bearers of the Indian Red Cross Society, Udumpanchola taluk, who are conducting the programme, told media persons on Tuesday that this programme would soon be extended to five more grama panchayats in the district. Kattappana and Nedumkandam grama panchayats have been chosen for the implementation of the project.

The programme is being conducted with the support of hospitals and aid from the business community. An online list of blood donors in the district would be prepared, they said.

The effort is to make every member of a family trained in providing first-aid during an emergency.

The project will be extended to autorickshaw drivers also.

A 500-member faculty cell has been formed and members of nearly 20,000 families in the two panchayats will be trained, they said. The training programme will be led by the State Health Department, Indian Medical Association, St Johns Hospital, Kattappana, Medical Trust Hospital, Nedumkandam, Karuna Hospital, Nedumkandam, and College of Nursing, M.G.University.