Football is the most popular sport in Ghana. The national
governing body is the Ghana Football Association. Internationally, Ghana is
represented by the male Black Stars and the female Black Queens. The top
domestic football league in Ghana is the Glo Premier League. The passion and
the unifier of the nation is football.
However, in recent
times, what appears as the passion and the unifier of the nation is a venue of
death for some unlucky footballers and funs. Ghana has the history of recording
football heinous ever disaster in the world. The May 9,2001 disaster that
claimed 120 lives was a black day in the football fraternity to Ghanaians alone
but to the world loving soccer funs.
Another reason why this training needs to be organized is on
September 3, 2011 when the nation once again lost a football administrator (Alhaj
Ibrahim Sly Tetteh )who scouted some of the great players currently in the Black
stars.Again a player of Kessben Fc Bartholomew Yeboah died in the hospital
after he collapsed in a league of cardiac arrest.
It is in the light of this, that Community Emergency
Response Team Ghana would want to seek for support to organize an intensive
training for the football fraternity. Basic Life Support and CPR skills will be
a key in the training.
We need funding and some medical equipments like 12-lead ECG
for the training and checking of players cardiac activity.We have already
decided to always send our volunteers to help the football teams at league
matches to give first aid to footballers and funs as standby responders.
Community Emergency Response Team Ghana is a nonprofit organization
and the first citizen corps in Ghana that seeks to train community volunteers
in disaster preparedness and response.
Attached below is our brochure:
A BRIEF NOTE ON CERT GHANA
- BROCHURE
Who We Are: Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), Ghana
is a non- profit, non- governmental organization that seeks to manage natural
and manmade disasters in Ghanaian communities through community volunteers.
CERT, Ghana seeks to train community
volunteers on basic rescue techniques of disaster management. It envisions a
Ghana where every individual is entitled to the basic skills and knowledge of
disaster management.
Vision: Doing the Greatest Good for the Greatest Number.
Mission Statement: Managing natural and man made disasters
through community volunteers who are trained on, first aid and basic rescuing
techniques. Health education and setting up mobile clinics to take care of
disaster victims post disaster is our hope.
Objectives: CERT ,Ghana seeks to contribute to disaster
management and the promotion of the spirit of voluntarism in Ghanaian communities.
In furtherance of
this goal CERT, Ghana seeks to:
• To
promote voluntarism and voluntary efforts in the management of community
emergencies in cases of natural and man made disasters.
• To help
other departments responsible for ensuring public and community safety through rescue techniques by using the
community volunteers as they are nearer to the scenes.
• To train
community volunteers in the management of emergencies.
• To
support victims to cope with psychological and economic effects of natural and
man made disasters and integrate them back to society.
What We Do : CERT Ghana
promote the spirit of volunteerism .Instill in every Ghanaian that we all have a hand in
hometown security and that every community is secured in terms of disaster
through its efforts. We share information on the best practices of disaster
preparedness in the country through training of community volunteers on basic
techniques of disaster management skills. Health Education is also our hope.
campaigning on disaster prevention with the right base approach.
Areas that We Work : CERT, Ghana’s scope of work
concentrate on three thematic areas namely :First aid through training
of community volunteers on( Basic Life Support and Trauma Life Support), Search
and Rescue Techniques through training of volunteers on basic techniques of
retrieving victims in building collapse or earthquakes, Fire suppression is also our hope. Post
disaster health needs of victims and Health Education on outbreaks of diseases are
the cross-cutting issues and each thematic group is encouraged to our volunteers to mainstream
them. Specifically, programmes and policies of training our volunteers are within
the national and global frameworks, focusing on issues of disaster preparedness
and management through our volunteers who are trained on the basic skills and
techniques of crisis or disaster management and approach.
• CERT,
Ghana organized Health Outreach programme at Buipe, a village in northern Ghanthat was hit by
flood last year. A number
of medical professionals were sent to this village to assess and examine
their health needs with first aid treatment. A consultant in Anesthesia and a
specialist in Emergency management of Tamale Teaching Hospital was also part of
this trip. We sensitized the people on flood and disaster preparedness. This
attracted a national attention as the National Television had a media coverage of the programme.
• Engagement
on the training of community volunteers of CERT, Ghana with Crisis commons in USA.
• CERT,
Ghana has liason with the Ghana
Ambulance Service.
Thematic Groups: CERT ,Ghana volunteers are encouraged to work and attend workshops
organized by CERT to enreach their knowledge and skills of disaster
preparedness and rapid response based on current and global accepted framework
and understanding.
The organization works with Standard Operating
Procedure(SOP) document that is similarly used by the Medical Reserve Corp in
united State. The organization has a constitution that governs its activities
and volunteers are registered.
The organization monitors and analyses policy formulation
and implementation and share its findings and makes recommendations on these
findings.
THE ORGANISATION INVOLVED:
Membership of CERT,
Ghana comprises mainly professional
volunteers and non professional volunteers, civil society organizations, community groups, youth
groups, development organizations and affiliate members from other
organizations.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES:
1. Dr.Adam Abass: Neuro-surgical consultant Tamale Teaching
Hospital and University for Development Studies (UDS) Medical School.
2. Chief Alhassan Issahaku: Director for Northern Regional
Population Office.
3. Dr. Ahmed Zakariah: Director of Ghana Ambulance Service .
4. Dr. Ibrahim Abubakari: Orthopedic consultant Tamale
Teaching Hospital and Medical School of UDS
5. Alhaj Adam Issahaku: A medical practitioner and C.E.O.
of Haj Adams Clinic.
6. Yakubu H. Yakubu: Director CERT, Ghana and a Registered
Nurse at the Intensive Care Unit Tamale Teaching Hospital.
Written by:
Yakubu H.Yakubu
Director CERT GHANA.
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