Importance of First Aid-The Frontier Post [Archive] By Waqar Hussain

(Sunday, October 25, 1992)

A few days ago my mother was admitted in a hospital for catarating in the eye-ward beside my meal. Suddenly a tiny morsel of loaf got stuck in her respiratory tract. She was choking when I thought of giving her first aid. Consequently the particle got out and her  breathing became normal.

   It is heard quite often that everyone should be familiar with first aid measures. That day I realized its importance.

What is first aid?

When someone is taken ill suddenly, there is usually some gap before the arrival of a doctor, during which it becomes essential to do something to save life-to prevent a condition from getting worse-perhaps even to prevent unwise meddling What is done at that time is called first aid This term, therefore refers to the immediate, temporary care given by a layman in case of sudden malady.

It anything obstructs the bronchi, at once lower down victims’s face and gently tap with both palms on his upper part of waist just  below the next. It is a simple device that it’s results are par excellence.

The holy Prophet (PBUH) said,” Make sure that you have placed a glass of water before starting a meal. “This is to prevent suffocation or choking.

Nowadays, Neelam Ghar holds a competition between wo couples in which they have to eat a “luddu” a yellow sweetmeat rolled into balls—hurriedly then count numbers in one breath. This is dangerous, when a person counts he is exhaling air,as he stops, he breathes furiously. At hood that the sweetmeat granules may enter the bronchi, thus leading to a fatality.

WAQAR HUSSAIN,

Lahore.