Election: Red Cross Deploys Members to Give First Aid Treatment

Ahead of Saturday’s general election, the  Society in Kaduna has deployed 360 of its members for emergency response and first aid treatment at some polling centres.

The Secretary of the of the society, Kaduna Branch, Sunday Awulu, said, the deployment of its personnel to some of the polling centres was part of their collaboration with government and other stakeholders.

“We have a contingency plan for the election” to see how we can provide our services during the period particularly in the violence prone areas.

“The personnel are going there in case of any emergency not only election violence, but in the course of queuing to vote, someone may slump or some issues may come up and people might sustain injuries.”

“We have deployed 15 members to each local government area of the state and also 15 at the headquarters for emergency responses.”

Sunday said the personnel would be stationed at strategic places not close to the polling units.

He explained that the members were trained on emergency response and with ‘knowledge on basic first aid’ to strengthen their capabilities in attending to emergencies.

“We had a training session with them at the ministry of local government to strengthen the response mechanism on how to respond to emergency and render first aid,” the branch secretary said.

Red Cross Society was making arrangements to facilitate the use of ambulances from the General hospitals in the state during the elections to attend to emergencies. He added

NAN/Oyenike Oyeniyi.