YHP Türkiye - Run first for first aid
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Location
155 high schools in 11 cities including Istanbul, Samsun, Gaziantep, Aydın, Sivas, Çanakkale, Düzce, Antalya, İzmir, Adana, Eskişehi.
Timing
2021-2024
The local context
'How to respond in a medical emergency where minutes could be the difference between life and death?'
First aid training can help students manage incidents and perform assessments of casualties. The more equipped they are to deal with accidents, illnesses and treatments, the safer they will feel in emergencies. Based on this, AstraZeneca Türkiye partnered with Emergency Medicine Association of Turkey (TATD) and the Foundation for Educating Children (TOÇEV) to offer first aid training in schools across Türkiye.
Our objectives
To train 55,000 high school students in 155 schools across 27 cities in first aid, providing opportunities to practice in order to equip them with the skills required to provide immediate and potentially lifesaving assistance in cases of injury or illness.
Our programme
With the ‘Run first For first aid’ project, face-to-face first aid training is provided to high-school students in various cities in Türkiye. TOÇEV identify the schools with guidance from the provincial directorates of national education, under the Ministry of Education. EMAT’s volunteer emergency medicine specialists provide theoretical and practical training sessions, both 45 minutes long. Using training dummies, life support techniques are taught such as heart massage, artificial respiration in adults and children, the Heimlich maneuver, and airway obstruction due to external objects. The knowledge of students is measured in pre- and post-testing.
Our achievements
Since November 2021, over 30,000 students in 80 schools, across 11 cities have received training.
The programme has also been recognised with the following awards:
- June 2023: Gold Award for ‘Social Responsibility and Sustainability-Healthy Living’, Brandverse Awards 2023 - a notable marketing and communication awards organisation in Türkiye.
- August 2023: Gold Award ‘Communications or PR Campaign of the Year – Healthcare’, Stevie International Business Awards 2023.
Our partners
TOÇEV, the Foundation for Educating Children, is one of the leading NGOs in Türkiye, working in child education. They provide financial and moral support to underprivileged children throughout their entire education. Underpinned by the belief that "Every child has the right to study", they accept every child as an individual and work tirelessly to ensure that they are equipped to make an active and positive contribution to their social environment.
EMAT
Emergency Medicine Association was established in Izmir in 1995 by Dr. John Fowler. It's mission is to develop projects in Emergency Care Systems related fields - emergency rooms, prehospital emergency care, first aid, disaster management, emergency medicine residency training - and to support the improvement of this system in Türkiye.
Further information
For information on other previous country programmes see:
2013 – 2016: YHP Türkiye - I am a teenager