Emergency situations and management to be added in school curriculum

BANGKOK, July 15 (TNA) – The National Institute of Emergency Medicine is working to include emergency management in the school curriculum to teach students how to survive in emergency situations following the Tham Luang cave incident, in which the boys were trapped in the flooded cave. The issues are necessary for children. The content is almost completed while teaching aids will be designed to suit each aged group of students, said Deputy Secretary-General of the National Institute of Emergency Medicine, Pairote Boonsirikhamchai. The institute earlier had brainstorming sessions in workshops with both public and private sectors to make the drafted curriculum to prepare students for emergency situations. The details of the content include pedestrian safety, stress and depression management and first aids for patients with acute stroke, heart attack. Students will be instructed to reach help in the emergency cases through the hotline 1669 and will be trained to perform CPR and to use a defibrillator AED. Basic safety for travelling to the mountain and the sea will be taught such as how to use life vests and how to prepare necessary gears like flashlights and whistles for trekking in the forest and caves. (TNA)