By Bode Olushegun
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has reaffirmed commitment to providing the requisite training of Its personnel on first aid, aimed at ensuring competency to carry out Informed first aid decision while attending to victims of disaster.
The Director General of NEMA, Air Vice Marshal Muhammadu Mohammed (Retd ) stated this during the opening ceremony of a four-day training on Basic First Aid on emergency Response, organized by NEMA in collaboration with Nigerian Red Cross Society, Borno state chapter.
The NEMA boss, who was represented by Assistant Director Human Resources (Training), Usman Aji, said the training was geared towards building the capacity of staff members in responding to disasters and emergencies.
In his remarks, the Acting Zonal Coordinator, NEMA North East Zone, Chonoko Ishaya, said improving staff members’ competency and operational readiness remained the cardinal objectives of the current leadership of NEMA, while urging the staff members to take the training seriously, stressing that responses involved situations where staff memberd must determine whether the situation was safe and at the same time identifying and treating the problems of casualties.
On his part, the representative of the Secretary, Nigerian Red Cross Society, Borno state, Babagana Usman, said the training was targeted at updating the staff members of NEMA with skills and techniques of life saving during emergencies.
Some of the staff members of NEMA among the participants at the training, told journalists that they had leant a lot and hoped to use the training in response activities for victims of insurgency and other disasters in the Zone.
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