{"id":13804,"date":"2019-09-13T20:51:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T20:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=13804"},"modified":"2019-09-13T20:51:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T20:51:53","slug":"the-red-cross-to-improve-first-aid-services-in-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/the-red-cross-to-improve-first-aid-services-in-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Cross to improve first aid services in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the occasion of the World First Aid Day celebrated yearly on September 14th, the Red Cross Burundi has said there is a need to improve first aid services in the country. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Anselme Katiyunguruza: \u201cFirst aid services are not enough in Burundi\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Anselme Katiyunguruza, Secretary General of the Red Cross in Burundi says first aid services are not enough in the country. \u201cIf there are no first aid services, people\u2019s lives can be endangered,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

He says some groups of people are sometimes ignored in cases of first aid services. \u201cPeople who are victims of travel accidents lack first aid services since many drivers and conductors do not know how to offer the services,\u201d he also says.<\/p>\n

Mr. Katiyunguruza says many families may not have any member who can offer first aid services.<\/p>\n

He says the Red Cross plans a sensitization campaign throughout the country so at least one member of each family in Burundi should be able to ensure first aid services.<\/p>\n

The Red Cross Secretary General says there is also a plan to teach emergency services to drivers, policemen and other groups of people who are likely to intervene in dangerous situations.<\/p>\n

He calls on people to learn about first aid services so they can help victims of accidents before taking them to hospitals.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccidents are some of the main disasters in Burundi,\u201d says Anicet Nibaruta, Deputy Director General of Civil Protection Police.
\nThe civil protection police offer first aid services to all people who need them, he adds.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, there is shortage of materials, the reason why we sometimes fail to intervene when there is an accident or a problem in the lake,\u201d he says.
\nMr. Nibaruta says the Ministry of Security and Catastrophe Management keeps teaching policemen so they can be able to intervene whenever first aid services are needed.<\/p>\n

He calls on drivers to respect driving regulations to prevent accidents which usually require first aid services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the occasion of the World First Aid Day celebrated yearly on September 14th, the Red Cross Burundi has said there is a need to improve first aid services in the country. Anselme Katiyunguruza, Secretary General of the Red Cross in Burundi says first aid services are not enough in the country. \u201cIf there are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":13800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,670],"tags":[36,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13806,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13804\/revisions\/13806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}