Punnapha Thongphan, director
of Pattaya Public Health, provides the welcoming speech.
Urasin Khantaraphan
More than 100 Pattaya students received training in basic first aid
as part of a city project to boost the school health program.
Deputy Mayor Wattana Chantanawaranon opened the July 7 workshop for 125
Mattayom 1 students and nurses from Pattaya’s 11 public schools. Registered
nurse Kloijai Tonsok and lecturers from Banglamung Hospital ran the sessions
offering both theoretical and practical training.
The first-aid course covered multiple scenarios, from fainting to limb
fractures, to wound cleaning and animal bites.
Wattana explained that first aid was not as difficult as many kids think and
that helping an injured person is not only a job for adults, but children as
well.
The deputy mayor encouraged the students to learn how to stop bleeding,
revive unconscious victims and reduce suffering.
