LC set to hold seminar, training for barangay disaster preparedness

By Dominic B. dela Cruz

Staff reporter

Laoag City—The City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) here plans to conduct seminars and training for all of the city’s 80 barangays.

CDRRMC chairman Dr. Melvin Manuel said this is in preparation for the rainy season where calamities may occur.

The training and seminar will focus on basic life support process including the principles of emergency cases; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; respiratory arrest and rescue breathing; automated external defibrillator; and foreign body airway obstruction management.

Dr. Manuel said the proposed training has already been forwarded to Laoag Mayor Chevylle V. Fariñas for her approval.

Trainors for this undertaking, Dr. Manuel disclosed, would be from the city government.

Each barangay would be required to have a maximum of 25 participants, all of whom should be physically fit for the two-day training.

Dr. Manuel added that the budget allocation would be sourced from the CDRRMC under the calamity fund with counterpart funding from the barangay’s own calamity funds.

He stated further that selected schools in the city’s business district have also signified their cooperation to become evacuation centers in times of calamities.

In a related development, six more city government employees recently completed the International Life Savings course for scuba diving in Currimao, Ilocos Norte.

These newly certified scuba divers will form part of the training for the barangays, Dr. Manuel said.

These scuba divers will also be one of the trainers during the training for the barangays, Manuel said.