First Aid

Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) strategy considers health as one of the pillars for building community resilience and sustainable development. Healthy individuals and families, access to health services, spreading enough knowledge that encourage people to care for their health and help others, as well as responding to health needs especially in case of emergencies, are the main objectives that ERC aims to fulfill through its various health activities.

First Aid

The Egyptian Red Crescent has 12 training centers in Egypt to provide intensive first aid training courses to various categories of the community.

First Aid training courses include the following topics: Primary survey (ABCs), heart attack, airway obstruction, Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), drowning, bleeding, burns, fractures, abdomen, chest, and eye injuries, shock, fainting and coma, convulsions, poisoning, diarrhea, bites and stings, exposure to extreme temperatures, Triage, prevention of children injuries.