City officials recently requested public and private basic education schools with junior and senior high students in the city to organize age-appropriate basic life support trainings as part of their institution’s comprehensive health and physical education curriculum.
Under Resolution No. 143, series of 2024, local legislators stated that basic education schools shall incorporate basic life support trainings as part of the school’s comprehensive health and physical education curriculum.
The council claimed that school administrators or principals shall coordinate with the City Health Services Office (CHSO) for its assistance in providing competent instructors for the school’s basic life support education training program.
During the Scout Official for a Day (SOFAD) session held on November 7, 2022, the SOFAD Council adopted the proposal of SOFAD Councilor Mark Louie B. Reyes that seeks to mandate all junior and senior high school students in the city to undergo age-appropriate basic life support trainings.
The council stipulated that the 1987 Constitution assures the maintenance of peace and order, the protection of life, liberty and property, and the promotion of the general welfare are essential for the enjoyment by all the people of the blessings of democracy and the State recognizes the vital role of the youth in nation building and shall promote and protect their physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual and social well being; it shall inculcate in the youth patriotism and nationalism, and encourage their involvement in public and civic affairs.
The council added that junior and senior high school students must take an active role in disaster risk reduction by knowing how to perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and basic life support.
The said training will surely equip the said students with basic life support skills that may be used during contingent event.
The council asserted that it shall be the duty of all public and private basic education schools in the city to provide their students with basic life support trainings through the use of psycho-motor training that involves hands-on practice to support cognitive learning in an age-appropriate manner which shall include programs that have been developed by the Philippine Heart Association or the Philippine National Red Cross using nationally recognized, evidence-based guidelines for emergency cardio-vascular care, and psycho-motor training to support the instruction. By Dexter A. See
