Polish aid

The initiative builds on previous experiences of the subsidised programmes’ recipient in the area of Polish-Ukrainian cooperation, aimed at sharing knowledge and experiences as well as donating training and rescue equipment to firefighters.

Two editions of one-week training courses on advanced first aid, three-day training courses on conducting rescue missions during mass accidents and field training in Chisinau were held in 2019. The training was carried out, among others, by paramedics from the Maltese Medical Corps and teachers from the Fire Service College of the State Fire Service. In total, 100 firefighters – nearly ten percent of rescue workers from the Moldovan fire service – participated in 70 days of training, exercises and workshops. The first training session took place in Chisinau in July 2019. An important part of the project are donations of equipment which is used for training and exercise, and later for rescue missions. Moldovan firefighters received a pneumatic tent – a first aid post, 14 rescue kits including backpacks, spinal boards, Cramer’s splints and automated defibrillators. They also got training equipment kit with advanced and simple CPR manikins, AED trainers, as well as advanced first aid manuals.

In 2020, the foundation’s instructors trained 41 firefighters from a unit in Balti in the north of Moldova. Two courses were held in August this year, during which the firefighters completed one-week training courses on advanced first aid, which are standard courses for Polish State Fire Service. The courses were taught using equipment donated by the foundation in 2019. The instructors, the trainees, as well as the head of the training centre followed safety requirements imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All persons had their temperature measured before entering the premises, were wearing face masks and disinfecting their hands.

Due to the pandemic, the training on rescue missions in dangerous zones scheduled for this year, workshops for first aid instructors, and study visits of firefighters could not take place. For the same reason, rescue exercises for firefighters that were to be held in Poland had to be cancelled. In exchange, it was decided together with the Moldovan partners that additional rescue and training equipment would be purchased. The equipment was officially handed over on 25 November in Chisinau. The ceremony concluded the project “Building rescue capacities of Moldova’s fire service.” In total, the project encompassed 46 training days and donations of equipment worth PLN 593,000, which included 19 AED defibrillators, two operating and rescue tents, piercing equipment, equipment for securing structures at risk of collapsing, equipment for immobilising accident victims with spinal or limb injuries, climbing equipment, training equipment and teaching aids, including six CPR manikins, face masks, protective gloves and disinfectant. The ceremony was attended by: Vitalie Grabovski, Deputy Head of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, Maciej Kowalczyk – Second Secretary at the Polish Embassy in Chisinau, Michał Rżysko – project coordinator at the Maltese Assistance Foundation – Maltese Medical Corps, firefighters, rescue workers, and the media.

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