Aspire Coronation Trust Foundation (ACT) has partnered with IHS Towers to train students in health emergency response skills.
Development Diaries reports that ACT has given a one million naira grant to Health Emergency Initiative (HEI) to build secondary school students’ capacity for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
The HEI Executive Director, Paschal Achunine, in a statement, said that the grant was provided following the emergence of HEI among the top ten finalists of the ACT Changemaker Innovation Challenge (CIC) and winner of the IHS Towers support grant.
He added that the great feat also attracted an eight-week leadership/management training scholarship for personnel of HEI at the Lagos Business School (LBS).
‘This initiative became imperative with the growing anxiety about the high incidence of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) such as heart attack, cardiac arrest, and the attendant fatalities among Nigerians in recent years’, Achunine said.
‘The programme, which was successfully implemented between January and May 2023, ensured that 40 secondary students and 25 of their teachers across the six educational districts in Lagos were equipped with essential life-saving skills, creating a more prepared and resilient community’.
Achunine said each of the participants acquired critical pre-hospital skills required to manage such cases as cardiac arrest, heart attack, fainting, seizures, internal bleeding, bites, poison, burns, wounds, fainting and choking.
He noted that activities, including essay competition, quiz and debates, would be instituted in the schools, to foster a life-saving culture in the state.
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