Kampala — KIBUUKA Memorial Secondary School students in Mpigi district have been trained in first aid. Christine Atura, the tutor of Public Health Nurse's College, Kyambogo, said the training was vital for schools because students and pupils were most vulnerable.

Over 80, including pupils of Kibuuka Memorial Primary school, participants were trained in casualty care, bandaging, taking care of the air tracks and reviving the heart by resuscitation.

The training was sponsored by the Health Africa Development Corporation Organisation based in Finland and the Public Health Nurse's College Kyambogo.

Domenic Otucet, the headmaster of Kibuuka Memorial Secondary School, urged the organisers to train the masses in fire-fighting.

"I appeal to the Public Health Nurse's College to enrich the course of first aid with fire fighting courses to avert deaths caused by fire," Otucet said at the closing of the training recently where participants were given certificates.