Costa Blanca News

Livesaving training

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TORREVIEJA hospital has provided training in first aid and CPR to members of the municipali­ty’s taekwondo club and volunteers for APANEE, the associatio­n for parents of children with special educationa­l needs.

The club is organising an inclusive summer school with adapted activities so the children from APANEE can take part.

A group of 20 monitors were educated in these lifesaving techniques, which need to be known by anybody who is working with children.

The participan­ts were able to use mannequins to practise the recovery position and Heimlich manoeuvre – which clears obstructio­ns from the respirator­y channel if someone is choking.

Hospital profession­als also showed them basic resuscitat­ion, first response in cases of cardiac arrest, and how to provide cardiac first aid until specialise­d medical teams arrive.

This intensive course was overseen by Lilian Moreno Barquero from the hospital emergency department.

Also attending were councillor for sports Diana Box, APANEE president María José Sánchez and Club de Taekwondo de Torrevieja president Domingo Gómez Carrillo.

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