In any disaster involving children many times teachers are the first responders, and that's why city councilor with responsibility for disaster management Phillip Willoughy is having a first aid training for teachers at all levels. He explains that it has to do with one time when an ambulance couldn't get into a school promptly because of all the vendors:
Phillip Willoughby
"One day there was an incident at a particular primary school and the ambulance in one occasion couldn't get in off the particular to get into the school, likewise in a second incident for the fire trucks. It was that in mind that I said maybe as a part of strengthening our capabilities that we ought to do this collaboration and it did materialize through the good offices of NEMO and the Red Cross. We did the collaboration to get the schools involve here today and over the next two days."
"We hope that we would be able to get support from the schools and the wider public in regards to how we look at how vending is done near schools and how we regulate probably the flow of traffic as well as how the kids traverse in the areas, so as to probably alleviate any additional stress in an emergency. Leading up to that we are doing this training to equip the schools and its management to provide such service until the primary responders get to the school."
Today was for pre school teachers and the successive sessions will be for primary and secondary schoolers.
