The Bono Regional Command of the National Ambulance Services (NAS) has trained about 400 basic school graduates in the Tano North Municipality on life support techniques to bolster emergency response situation in their respective communities.
A team of personnel of the service, led by Mr Eric Mills, the Deputy Bono Regional Commander of the NAS took the young people through Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
The beneficiaries were graduates who just   completed the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Tanoso Circuit of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the Ahafo Region.
They were also sensitized on the use of vital signs checking equipment, ⁠CPR and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) techniques, ventilator use and oxygen therapy delivery as well as ⁠Immobilization devices.
The beneficiaries were also enlightened on inter-hospital services of the ambulance, processes of splinting or immobilization sprains, and fractures and to reduce deterioration during traumatic conditions.
According to Mr Mills, the “training is an emergency lifesaving technique in line with Emergency Medical Service”, saying the beneficiaries were expected to attend to cardiac arrests (heart attacks) in the local communities.
He told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the sidelines of the training held at Susuanso, a mining community in the Municipality that the “beneficiaries will also help in sustaining blood circulation and gaseous exchange of victims too”.
Mr Adams Abdul-Samad, the Public Relations Officer, and the Head of Training of the Bono Regional Command of NAS, explained that the training “is a basic first aid service to increase chances of survival”.
Madam Veronica Kumi Yeboah, the School Improvement Support Officer of the Tanoso Circuit of the GES, said the event sought to “open the minds” of the graduates, as they awaited their results and to further their education.
One of the beneficiaries, Samuel Keyre told the GNA the training had given them insights to the work of NAS.