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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.
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