This is my entry to the Hive Learners weekly contest.
A definition I remember from school then. First aid treatment is a treatment given to an injured or sick person before taking him or her to the hospital. In first aid treatment it is given to that very person that needs it before further treatment is passed on. A first aid kit is one thing we all should try to have. It might not be available, but some drugs and equipment should be part and parcel of the home in which we live. They are highly needed and should be kept.
I would say that I know the basics of what I am supposed to give to a sick person. It is one thing that we would try in one way or another in order to learn. Before rushing to the hospital, there are little little things that one ought to do in order to try, by God's grace, to resuscitate the particular person.
Trying to manage a bleeding wound is one thing that I can do. Hydrogen peroxide, as it is popularly called, spirit, can be used to clean the wound to help reduce the bleeding, after which a drug would be used on it, and then it would be covered by plaster. All these would help reduce the bleeding and also the flies that would be perching on it, thereby reducing infestation of diseases that might be caused by the flies on it.
how much, I would say I have a bit of knowledge of first aid. It is a helpful thing that one is supposed to know, and in one way or another, it keeps helping in how it is supposed to.
Its knowledge is one thing that would help you and would also help others around you in different ways in life. Sometimes nearness to a hospital is nothing to write home about, in which people are to be transported in case of emergencies, and those little little things that would help that not to escalate would really be handled. Infrastructure might also be a problem, where bad roads would be in the way, and others would now try to delay the movement to the hospital. Traffic might also be an issue now, making that particular movement take more than it is supposed to take. All these contributing factors are one great reason why this first aid is very, very necessary and highly needed by us all. So instead of the situation now being a big one, maybe because of lack of care and all that, it would now try to become a better one by God's grace because of a truth that was supposed to be done at the time in which it was solely needed by people.
Those actions are, of a truth, needed, and we hope that they are carried out wherever they are needed.
When seconds counts, there is really great power in the first treatment given to people.
We keep hoping for the best. 🙏
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