Participation of the students of the 4th GEL of Rhodes in the
“Management of Disaster Victims”
On Friday 21/10 and Saturday 22/10, 40 students from all classes of our school, together with the teachers Anastasiadis Anastasia, Elvanoglou Vassilis and Filipaki Kalliopi, took part in the emergency exercises of the Master’s program “World Health — Medicine of Disasters” which took place in the framework of the conference “Management of Disaster Victims”.
The Master’s Program “Global Health — Medicine of Disasters” aims at theoretical and practical training as well as the acquisition of skills in the management of mass incidents — such as mass accidents and terrorist attacks — and health crises, emergency medicine, humanitarian law and medical vulnerable groups.
A prominent place in the program’s actions is the hands on course “Management of Disaster Victims”, which in previous years was implemented in Kefalonia, Kos and Cyprus and the last five years in Rhodes. The objectives of the program are the practical training through scenarios of simulation of young scientists in disaster management and the dissemination of this special know-how to professionals and volunteers of the civil protection network, with emphasis on issues dealing with major incidents, such as earthquakes, fires, and accidents with massive health losses.
Simulation scenarios have an educational purpose and are carried out in conditions of simulation of real events. They include space movement activities and role playing (injuries/victims of an event). The pupils carried out the activities under the supervision of the responsible teacher of the team Mrs. Filippiaki. The exercises in which our students took part included scenarios of fire and management of mass victims. For this reason, the children, after training and makeup, played the fire victims in Philerimos and in the local gallery.
Every participation in corresponding actions is a life experience for all participants and especially for the students who were lucky enough to be involved in such an unprecedented action. We thank all those who took part in this event and helped in its implementation and its excellent organisation. May our children always be given the opportunity to approach knowledge experientially.
