PEPPS learners ready to save lives

Learners at PEPPS Preparatory School are ready to deal with any emergency at their school and their respective communities.
The pupils participated in the school’s First Aid Level one course at the school on Saturday where they were taught about water rescue, life skills, environment emergency and how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), principles and ethics of first aid, general safety, multiple casualty triage, initial assessment, patient assessment, choking, medical conditions, trauma conditions, dressings and bandages, bites stings, poisons, lifting patients and general environmental emergencies.
Grade 11 learner Tshegofatso Molepo said the course was informative and will help them to deal with any eventualities. “It was a good course. We learned how to save people’s lives and how to deal with any situation that might need emergency services,” Tshegofatso said.
PEPPS mentor Robin Tapinos explained that they wanted learners to know how to deal with any situation that requires emergency service. “We want everyone to know how to swim. As a society in general we don’t put effort into teaching children to swim. If they know how to swim there will be fewer drowning incidents. Last year reports reached us about people that drowned in Mozambique and Thohoyandou. I believe if many of them knew how to swim they could have survived,” Tapinos said.

Story and photos: Herbert Rachuene
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