A number of SFDA employees has completed a first aid course given by the Saudi Red Crescent Assembly cooperating with the administrative services department. The course was held in the main hall of the SFDA and attended by more than thirtee employee from SFDA different sectors. It lasted three days averaging three hours daily and varied from practical to theoretical lessons.
The trainees learnt the basics of how to save lives of victims, how to offer first aid while protecting oneself and what are life threatening cases and indications.
D. Basel bin Ahmed Assaleh, the director of the administrative services department, stated that the main goal of the course is spreading health awareness between SFDA employees. He mentioned too that the SFDA sets plans of improving and training programs to raise the qualification of its employees and it implements them or supervises their implementation.