{"id":360680,"date":"2017-10-10T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=360680"},"modified":"2017-10-10T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T13:00:26","slug":"ghanaians-need-education-on-handling-burns-victims-surgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/ghanaians-need-education-on-handling-burns-victims-surgeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaians need education on handling burns victims – Surgeon"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Director of the Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre (RPS&BC), at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah, has\u00a0opined that Ghanaians need more education on handling burns victims.<\/p>\n
In his view,\u00a0\u201cthere is a lot of ignorance, especially among the general public on how to manage fire incidents and administer first aid to burns victims.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to him, casualty rates of fire incidents would be considerably low if only the general public had basic knowledge in managing such situations.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”CQIItymQWWLVXDD7xUfSmnCMaY1TNhXx”]\u201cEven in our schools, we don\u2019t have any training for burns. Burn awareness should be a part of our curriculum in our education system. There are many who people who pass through our system, but are totally ignorant about burns and first aid. This is something we need to look at, so we do not have a generation that is totally ignorant about burns, first aid and how to prevent domestic fire outbreak,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
“Eighty percent of burns cases are caused by domestic fires. It is therefore important that every Ghanaian has some amount of knowledge on how to deal with fire situations and in administering first aid to burns victims. This would help complement the efforts of medical professionals in ensuring that burn victims sustain minimal injuries as possible.”<\/p>\n