Bahiana carries out the Young First Aider Project with high school students

      

The professor and coordinator of the morphofunctional laboratory at Bahiana, Suzana Araújo, told how the project proposal works. “Through First Aid Monitoring, we are teaching basic concepts of fracture immobilization, what to do at the time of burning or choking and other maneuvers. As the age group of these students is between 14 and 16 years old and they are in the 1st year of high school, a very accessible language was used”.

Fabiana Perin, manager of the Institutional Relationship Center at Bahiana  and responsible for organizing the event, he reported what happened in the structuring of the Young Helper Project. "We always get in touch with the schools around the Bahiana, whether in Cabula or in Brotas, and with that, we take information about the courses”.

Students were divided into groups and had theoretical and practical classes, in classrooms and in the Morphofunctional Laboratory. During the morning, a practical demonstration of immobilization and checking of different parts of the body was carried out. Student Eric Melo, from Colégio Nossa Senhora da Conceição, shared what he thought of the Young Rescuer Project: “I thought it was really cool to learn about first aid, because that way we can help someone in need, when we see a person choking or feeling sick in the street and needing some help. It's very important to know that now I can help the next one”, he concludes.