– Caribbean Wellness Day Walk set for today A report calls on governments and partners to deploy concrete action to bridge the preparedness divide between rich and poor communities. The focus is to make first-aid training and education available for all.Today, more than seven million people are trained worldwide in the 52 countries covered by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) survey which represents 20 per cent increase compared to 2006. This is according to the Guyana Red Cross Society.This was announced yesterday to mark World First Aid Day.The Guyana Red Cross Society disclosed that although some countries have taken steps to make first-aid education available, the IFRC brings the attention of the international community to the importance of the ten recommendations in this global first-aid report so that more lives will be saved worldwide.“More efforts need to be made to turn the progress we have achieved so far into policies which can make first aid more accessible. In fact, the report shows that individuals and communities alike –in rich or poor countries – should be better prepared in providing first aid, The IFRC and its member National Societies are committed to doing more,Nike Jerseys Wholesale Store, doing better and reaching further in first aid,” says Grace Lo,NFL Jerseys China, manager of the community health unit at IFRC in Geneva.The report provides a number of valuable examples from around the world that highlight the importance of training individuals and communities to provide first aid when faced with traffic accidents or disaster injuries.The Guyana Red Cross expressed gratitude to all volunteers and staff for their tremendous support to First Aid development.To celebrate this year’s date the Guyana Red Cross will be collaborating with the Ministry of Health on the” Caribbean Wellness Day Walk” which is scheduled to begin today at the Bank of Guyana and end at the Merriman’s Mall, where GRC First Responders will conduct a simulation exercise. The simulation exercise is scheduled to start at 08:00 hrs today.Secretary General of the GRCS, Mrs. Dorothy Fraser, wishes to encourage every family to have at least one person in every home trained in First Aid.It is a vital step for providing effective and rapid intervention that helps reduce serious injuries and improve the chances of survival.Taking immediate action and applying the appropriate techniques makes a difference when saving lives.? Mrs. Fraser also noted that research indicates that once individuals take a First Aid course, the incidence of injury decreases by 40 per cent.“In all probability your First Aid assistance will be given to someone you know.”In Guyana,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, the focus will be in the coming years to increase First Aid through Community-Based activities and roll out the global programme of Community-Based Health and First Aid in action across the region.“Whether faced with floods,Cheap NFL Jerseys, fires,Authentic NBA Jerseys Cheap, a road accident or a heart attack, the ability to act quickly and appropriately is crucial.This is why teaching Basic First Aid skills to individuals and communities is the right way to protect them. So be Prepared! Learn First Aid! And give someone hope through the Guyana Red Cross – First Aid/CPR and AED Training,” GRCS disclosed.

Following a report in Sunday’s edition of the Kaieteur News under the headline ‘Mother accuses GPHC nurses of causing son’s blindness’, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has denied that the loss of vision resulted from the eye drops that the young man received at the GPHC.Kaieteur News had reported that Sahodrie Ramgolan,Cheap Jerseys Online, of 18 Croal Street, Enterprise, East Coast Demerara, had accused nurses at the GPHC of causing her son to become blind in the left eye after he used several eye drops they gave to him over time.She noted that in late July dust from a wooden plank fell into her son’s left eye as he was performing carpentry duties on a building in the village.According to the woman, when her son arrived home, at around 18:00 hrs on the day of the incident and related the incident to her, she directed him to wash his eyes repeatedly with water.She said that about two days later he complained of ‘a sticking sensation’ in the eye, and she took him to the GPHC, where a nurse examined the eye and sent him to the pharmacy to collect a bottle of Tobramycin Ophthalmic Solution U.S.P,Cheap Wholesale Jerseys,? eye drops which he used for four days before it was finished.Her son, 19-year-old Ravindra Lall,wholesale jerseys, indicated that on his second visit to the hospital, he was given a bottle of Tobramycin and Dexamethasone Ophthalmic Solution which he used immediately.The young man said this eye drop, however,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, began ‘burning and scratching his eyes immediately’. This eye drop was given a week after the first one.Ravindra said he used the eye-drops twice after and was shocked on the fourth day when he began ‘seeing cloudy’ in the left eye. Three days later, Ravindra was completely blind in the left eye.The mother told Kaieteur News that on August 18, a vision test taken at the institution revealed that Ravindra was indeed completely blind as she had suspected.However, in a press release, the GPHC stated that the medication, which the patient was given, is standard for persons with simple eye problems and is used by persons of all ages, including new born babies.The hospital stated that the young man’s loss of vision is related to an underlying medical condition and this was discussed in detail with him when he visited the Eye Clinic in the presence of his mother.“Further,Wholesale China Jerseys, the patient and his mother met with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Michael Khan, and also discussed the issue with him.? It was therefore very surprising to see Ms. Sahodrie Ramgolan’s inaccurate account of what transpired when she visited the hospital,” the release stated.Nevertheless, the hospital is urging members of the public to visit the institution for treatment and they should not be deterred because of the inaccurate reports published in the media.The administration of the hospital maintains that the patient and his mother were treated in a professional manner by the nurse on duty and were only told to sit aside from the other patients because of Ms. Ramgolan’s behaviour,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, which could not be condoned.