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Doha
The community outreach team from Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Ambulance Service are educating children at schools across Qatar about the life-saving role of the service.
Ali Darwish, assistant executive director of HMC’s Ambulance Service, explained the importance of engaging children at a young age.
“Our Ambulance Service has expanded rapidly throughout this decade and we now receive hundreds of 999 calls every day. As our ‘Know the 5 to save a life’ campaign emphasises, it is important that members of the public understand how to correctly interact with the Ambulance Service in the event of a medical emergency. By communicating with children, we can help them understand from a young age the service our teams provide and how they can play their part in helping to save lives,” said Darwish.
The Ambulance Service community outreach team visits hundreds of primary schools, secondary schools and colleges each year in Qatar, including independent, private and international schools.
Ali Rahimi, lead instructor with the community outreach team, said the initiative is also part of HMC’s effort to introduce members of the public to basic life support training.
He said, “These school visits enable us to engage, in person, with thousands of children each year. This is an valuable way to educate young people about the role of our Ambulance Service teams as well as to teach important first aid techniques.
“For secondary schools and colleges, we also introduce Basic Life Support training. We visit nurseries with children as young as three years old and it’s incredible how inquisitive and genuinely interested they are in what we do. The young children love having the opportunity to explore an ambulance and are always fascinated by the flashing lights, sirens and medical equipment,” said Rahimi.
Sean Sibley, headmaster of Doha English Speaking School (DESS), said DESS is one of the international schools to have recently benefitted from a dedicated education programme delivered by the Ambulance Service’s community outreach team.
“DESS has been delighted to collaborate with HMC’s Ambulance Service over the past few years and we recently developed a four-day programme through which the community outreach team visited our school and delivered educational sessions to children aged seven to eleven years old,” said Sibley.
“At DESS, we fully appreciate the important role that HMC’s Ambulance Service provides and we understand that any one of us, teachers and students, could suddenly find ourselves in urgent need of their help. We see educational activities such as these as an essential part of providing a well-rounded education to our children and we look forward to continuing to work closely with the Ambulance Service in the future,” he added.
Any school wishing to request a visit from the Ambulance Service community outreach team can email [email protected].
Doha
The community outreach team from Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Ambulance Service are educating children at schools across Qatar about the life-saving role of the service.
Ali Darwish, assistant executive director of HMC’s Ambulance Service, explained the importance of engaging children at a young age.
“Our Ambulance Service has expanded rapidly throughout this decade and we now receive hundreds of 999 calls every day. As our ‘Know the 5 to save a life’ campaign emphasises, it is important that members of the public understand how to correctly interact with the Ambulance Service in the event of a medical emergency. By communicating with children, we can help them understand from a young age the service our teams provide and how they can play their part in helping to save lives,” said Darwish.
The Ambulance Service community outreach team visits hundreds of primary schools, secondary schools and colleges each year in Qatar, including independent, private and international schools.
Ali Rahimi, lead instructor with the community outreach team, said the initiative is also part of HMC’s effort to introduce members of the public to basic life support training.
He said, “These school visits enable us to engage, in person, with thousands of children each year. This is an valuable way to educate young people about the role of our Ambulance Service teams as well as to teach important first aid techniques.
“For secondary schools and colleges, we also introduce Basic Life Support training. We visit nurseries with children as young as three years old and it’s incredible how inquisitive and genuinely interested they are in what we do. The young children love having the opportunity to explore an ambulance and are always fascinated by the flashing lights, sirens and medical equipment,” said Rahimi.
Sean Sibley, headmaster of Doha English Speaking School (DESS), said DESS is one of the international schools to have recently benefitted from a dedicated education programme delivered by the Ambulance Service’s community outreach team.
“DESS has been delighted to collaborate with HMC’s Ambulance Service over the past few years and we recently developed a four-day programme through which the community outreach team visited our school and delivered educational sessions to children aged seven to eleven years old,” said Sibley.
“At DESS, we fully appreciate the important role that HMC’s Ambulance Service provides and we understand that any one of us, teachers and students, could suddenly find ourselves in urgent need of their help. We see educational activities such as these as an essential part of providing a well-rounded education to our children and we look forward to continuing to work closely with the Ambulance Service in the future,” he added.
Any school wishing to request a visit from the Ambulance Service community outreach team can email [email protected].
