Integrated Community Development Movement Nepal
Summary Report on Road Safety and Emergency
First Aid Training
Integrated Community Development Movement
(ICODEMON)
Mahadevsthan-3, Thankot
Kathmandu, Nepal
July, 2014
Integrated Community Development Movement Nepal
Summary
Road traffic injuries are a major but neglected public health challenge that requires
concerted efforts for effective and sustainable prevention. Worldwide, an estimated 1.2
million people are killed in road crashes each year and as many as 50 million are injured.
Projections indicate that these figures will increase by about 65% over the next 20 years
unless there is new commitment to prevention. Nepal’s fatality rate in fiscal year
2009/10 was 17 per 10,000 registered vehicles, which is one of the highest rates in both
Asia and the world.
Of all victims who are killed, 57 per cent die in the first minutes after the crash, before
the arrival of the emergency services. First aid provided in these vital first minutes can
save lives and help both victims and bystanders cope psychologically. So, acquiring first
aid skills could be a valuable asset of preparedness for such happenings, because first
aid is a lifesaving skill. It is the first intervention after road accident and the only way for
saving victim/s life or limbs and stabilizes the health condition of injured by road traffic
crash until advance medical treatment is available.
For the effective response of road crash,
Integrated community Development
Movement Nepal (ICODEMON)) is
contemplating an innovative program
named as “First Aid intervention on the
highway (first aid and road safety-pre-
hospital treatment)”. Under this
program, Road safety and Emergency
First Aid Training in Kathmandu
First Aid training is provided to security
personal, owner, driver and staff of public transport, representatives of local club,
community leaders, staffs of government, teacher, student and mother group etc.
The main goal of this training was to create trained first aid service providers to provide
first aid and road safety-pre-hospital treatment until advance medical treatment is
available. Different methods/approaches like Discussion, Question/answer,
Demonstration, Brain storming, Game & Simulation exercise along with interactive
lecturing were used to make the training process effective. The training was conducted
for a period of three days.
Integrated Community Development Movement Nepal
Objective:
To introduce concept, principle and process along with objective of Road
safety and First Aid,
To discuss and determine do's and don'ts of first aid at an emergency,
To enhance knowledge and skills regarding Emergency first aid.
Till date a total of three trainings have been organized in different districts, one in
Kathmandu and other two in Dhading district in different locations. Detail on Training
course can be accessed as Road Safety and Emergency First Aid Training Course.doc
The first emergency first aid training was organized in Hotel Orchid, Tripureshor,
Kathmandu from 17th-19th May, 2014. Second training was conducted from 14 th-16th
June, 2014 in Hotal Phulbari, Galchi, Dhading. Similarly, third training was organized in
Hotel Peace heaven, Malekhu, Dhading from 21st-23 rd June, 2014. There was active
participation of various participants representing from various professions. The First Aid
training on the three venues constituted a total of 69 participants. There were 22
participants in the program in Kathmandu, 23
and 24 participants in Galchhi and Malekhu of
Dhading district respectively. The table below
provides description of participants based on
their sex. In order to get the views of the
participants, training evaluation sheet
(Sample Evaluation sheet.doc) was provided
to each one of the participants at the end of
the training. The information obtained from
First Aid Training in Baireni, Dhading
the participants regarding the training was as
follows:
“Training will be very useful”
“Refresher training should be organized”
“This type to training should be organized for other highway area”
“Participants committed to deliver their service during road accident”
“The participants were able to gain basic skills which is very useful for their daily life”
Table 1: Classification of participants based on their sex
Trainings Total number Male Female
of Participants
st
1 training, Tripureshor, Kathmandu 22 16 6
2nd training, Galchhi, Dhading 23 13 10
3rd training, Malekhu, Dhading 24 11 13
At the end of the training certificates were provided to the participants. Such trainings
on Road safety would be very beneficial as the trained participants can use their
knowledge and skills to save lives of the community people during road crash.
Furthermore, they can be mobilized for road safety intervention programs.
Name of the Trainers mobilized to facilitate the course are as follows:
Mr. Sushil Raj Regmi, Training Coordinator
Mr. Krishna Ghimire, Trainer
Mr. Tika Raj Paudel, Trainer
Mr. Laxman Mali, Trainer
Mr. Niranjan Sedai, Trainer
Mr. Dibesh Karki, Trainer
