NSFs Die Cannot Blame AssAF Anymore Woh!

[makapaaa]

<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR>Expect recruits to kiss each other if need be? If any refuse, go straight to DB? NO REGRET losing $270B, but no $ to buy defibrillators? Why the FCUK is the Familee SO CORRUPT?

July 30, 2009
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Starting next year, all SAF recruits will be trained to use the automated external defibrillator (AED), a machine to help jump-start a failing heart, as well as to manually revive a person using CPR. -- ST FILE PHOTO
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->SOLDIERS joining the Singapore Armed Forces from next year will be given life-saving lessons to help out in medical emergencies.
All 20,000 recruits taken in every year will be taught to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to manually revive a person with breathing problems or a heart attack.
They will also learn how to operate an automated external defibrillator (AED), a machine which can jump-start the heart by evaluating its rhythm and jolting it into action again with an electric current.
The SAF has asked commercial companies to propose how they would hold half-day classes for soldiers and at what cost. The closing date for this request, which was issued last month, has now since passed.
At present, SAF officers, specialists and medical personnel are given such training. Extending it to all recruits would mean that the entire force is equipped to handle such emergencies.
Defence Ministry spokesman Darius Lim said the move is part of the SAF's plan to modernise its medical corps, and the training will 'enhance the proficiency of servicemen when rendering first aid'.
Doctors interviewed told The Straits Times that Mindef's moves would increase the survival chances of a soldier who suffers cardiac arrest while training.
They said a delay of every minute reduces a person's chances of survival by 7 per cent to 10 per cent.
Since 1995, at least seven full-time national servicemen (NSFs) have died as a result of cardiac arrest.
In 2003, army medics began carrying AEDs to all strenuous training activities that carry the risk of drowning or heart trauma.

 

[Char_Azn]

Maybe I'm getting blind or something but could you please point out in which part of the article did it state that we can no longer blame SAF for NSF dying?

And maybe I read wrongly but didnt the article state that

They will also learn how to operate an automated external defibrillator (AED), a machine which can jump-start the heart by evaluating its rhythm and jolting it into action again with an electric current.

Doesn't imply that one would be available if need be?

In any case, this is a GOOD thing. Everyone should learn CPR whether they are NSF or not. They should have freaking done it years ago. Someone might actually use that skill to save your life one day

 

[NoOnEsAwMe]

u can teach n teach... but i seriously doubt the chances of any nsman recruit using it.
first thought to their minds might be = wtf, if i do it incorrectly and the bugger still doesn't get up / or worse, that bugger dies, would i b responsible?

lol...

 

[Char_Azn]

Yeah that's why when something happens in camp, I'd shout for Medic instead.

However CPR itself is a skill we can use anywhere, I'm sure if we see our love ones in trouble, we'd try our best to save them. Which is why I said teaching recruits CPR is a good thing

 

[FuckSamLeong]

The SAF has asked commercial companies to propose how they would hold half-day classes for soldiers and at what cost. The closing date for this request, which was issued last month, has now since passed.

That is the clincher. Guess who gets the contract? Temasick linked company of course.

Side note.... Now then they start thinking about giving soldiers CPR training. Why am I not surprise? Because having gone through NS in a specialised vocation, I realised it's all a sham. They never teach you too much. We will die like the slaughtering of chickens if we go to war.

 

[Watchman]

If learn CPR then no need Medic Platoon is it ?

 

[Lestat]

About time this is to be implemented.

Isn't it too late now that ns guys are dropping like houseflies?

Paper talk and paper generals. One whole bunch of jokers.