Red Cross, Prov’l Govt. Conducts Training-Seminar On DMP For The New PDRT Members
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-Red Cross Southern Leyte Chapter with funds from the provincial government has conducted training-live-in seminar for ten days on Disaster Management Preparedness for the new Provincial Disaster Response Team (PDRT) members during the recent month.
This is in order to response to any emergency call that may arise in times of various rescue operations in the city and in other areas of the province. The seminar activities were held at the Ruperto K. Kangleon Function House located at brgy.Mambajao here in this small city. They were billeted at Crises Child Center building adjacent to the office of the Provincial Department of Social Services and Development.
In the past, Roman Mancio informed, Red Cross had also conducted series of DMP trainings to Red Cross volunteers and other government employees from various LGUs representatives in different municipalities of the province.
This was the interviewee’s disclosure who is one of the Red Cross trainors and Chapter Service Representative Safety Services in an interview at the Red Cross office in brgy.Abgao here.
Mancio pointed out that the training-seminar has the following objectives: 1) To be able to have a proper system of emergency rescue; 2)To gather concrete and concise data from the area of disaster so that the needs of the disaster victims can be addressed properly.
The trainings that imparted skills to the 55 participants, which has a funding of P298,000.00 from the provincial government, were composed of provincial and city employees and some Red Cross volunteers, who some of them were college students.
The skills trainings have covered Disaster Management, first aid, swift water rescue specialty, basic life support and swimming, infront CPR(cardio-pulmonary resuscitation),hazard mopping, situational accessment,evacuation of victims of floods, earthquakes and landslides, guidelines for emergency care, immobilization and bandaging, extrication(removing of victims from difficult situation),common medical emergency, basic swimming rescue, swift water rescue, basic rope technique and rappelling, water survival, basic life support for adults, child and infants CPR; foreign body airway management for adults, child and infants; and training for chocking instances.
The Chapter Service Representative also revealed that the seminar-training’s series of lectures and activities were translated into actual performances by the participants themselves under the supervision and guidance of their respective Instructors-trainors. These were in places where the untoward incidents were presumed to happen.
The equipments used during the actual trainings which was also being managed and supervised by the OIC-Red Cross head Noli Casas and Capitol consultant Jason Calva, were provided by the Provincial Disaster Management Council(PDMC) headed by Dodi Hernandez.
Aside from the interviewee, other resource persons who were all Red Cross staff were Noli Casas, Rogelio Aca-Red Cross-Davao City, Dominique Kagadas, Liex Sandoval, Edgardo Donato and Rene Panghuron.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
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