Having a knowledge of first aid treatment is very important because many times when someone sustai an injury maybe at home or work, nurses and doctors are not always there, so one needs to give the victim a a little kind of treatment that would at least be useful and sustain the person till they are taken to the hospital for proper treatment.
There's something I use to do whenever I cut myself some years back, I still do it now sometimes though, especially if in on my hands, I'll try lick the blood till it stops coming out, but I don't think that's a good idea, doctors in the house should please enlighten me on that.
Fortunately, I've been of help in some cases helping people when they sustain an injury even though I'm not a qualified first aider lol, but one stand out amongst all, it did stand out because it really disturbed me and everyone involved. Some years back in my area, I have some group of friends that are very troublesome and at the same time loving and fun to be with, we do hang out most times, we do alot of things together, some are even my class mate, therefore we were very close. So one faithful day, we were just outside, chilling and enjoying the cool weather, when one of our friends brought two coconuts for the boys, we quickly got a knife so we can use it to cut it after breaking it.
One of my friend volunteered to help us with it, but while he was trying to remove the coconut from the outer part, the unexpected happened, he mistakenly cut himself with the knife, and before we knew what was happening, blood was everywhere, it was all like a joke but it's very real. Unfortunately, there was no proper medical equipment we could use at that spot than to just find something to tie his hand so he won't lose too much blood, luckily I was having handkerchief with me, I quickly used it to tie his hand and with that, the blood reduced to some extent, so we quickly rushed him to a nearby pharmacy, the pharmacist helped us to clean the wounds and then referred us to hospital because the cut was deeper than we thought, he told us that it will require stitching which they don't provide the treatment there, so we had to rush him to the hospital and on getting there, he was given a proper treatment.
Who knows what would have happened if we didn't swing into action on time, because he was losing a lot of blood already, and thank God we came through for him before it gets too late.
Having a good knowledge about health is very crucial, as it will be of great help in many ways, lets say I'm a nurse or doctor, I would have known the best thing to give at that spot but we were all novice, all we could do was just help reduce the blood, which also helps though.
Luckily for me now, my wife is a nurse, so I've learnt how to give first aid treatment properly, I don't pray such thing happen again but if at all it happens, I'll know what to do.
But for my friend, we still make jest of him till date about that incident, our guy that cut himself because of coconut lol, of course we're guys, what's friendship without banter.