David Stanston, campus manager said, “The mock disaster scene was set up as a bomb explosion inside the campus building. The students were alerted of the disaster situation and immediately jumped into action.”
Stanston said volunteer staff members and students acted as fake patients, and manikins were strategically placed throughout the building to ensure the students followed the proper investigation techniques and treatment for all the patients.
“The scene was skilfully prepared by the lecturers to represent a real-life scenario,” said Stanston. “It is important to test what the future paramedics know and if they have grasped what they have been taught.”
Smoke machines and sound effects were used to represent a realistic scene for the students.
The student teams split up into rescue groups and then set up a triage area outside the building where students were assessed while treating the patients accordingly, as the rescue teams evacuated the patients from inside the building.
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