The Rotary Club of Royal Hua Hin organized and sponsored the lifesaving training project, “Police Help Save Lives” at the Hua Hin City Municipality headquarters on 9 April. Fifty officers of the Hua Hin Police Department participated in the first round of training to become proficient in CPR, Automated External Defibrillator (AED) usage and choking response, led by 15 professional instructors from the Hua Hin Petchkasem Foundation, Hua Hin City Municipality, Bangkok Hospital Hua Hin, and Hua Hin Hospital. As police officers can oftentimes be one of the first responders to an emergency situation, three more training sessions are going to be held in groups of 50 to help develop the lifesaving skills of the department’s total of 200 officers stationed in Hua Hin.
In collaboration with our longstanding partner for human development, the “help4people foundation”, we also donated new, state-of-the-art AED equipment to the police department and stored at their headquarters for emergency use in the vicinity.
Police Colonel Kampanat, the Superintendent of the Hua Hin Police Department stated, “It is highly beneficial for the Hua Hin Police Station to have an AED available on site. This device can help save the lives of Thai and foreign tourists in the heart of the city, citizens visiting the station, as well as police officers themselves should an unexpected emergency occur.”
Great thanks to all of these dedicated organizations and volunteers who are at the frontline of public safety, security and service for always supporting our club’s humanitarian initiatives, and special thanks to our club member Rotarian Fay (EMT) for organizing this far-reaching project for the well-being of the Hua Hin community. We UNITE FOR GOOD in the spirit of Rotary!
Rotarians regularly conduct high-impact service projects in multiple sectors of society; public, private, social, and environmental preservation for sustainable development.
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