SAFETY should start at home.

Baguio City Councilor Leandro Yangot wants to have life support training for each household.

Passed on its first reading during the City Council regular session, the ordinance seeks to provide basic life training for homes in the city in a bid to save lives and instill health consciousness.

"Trained emergency medical workers are not always available in the vicinity. Worse, fellow friends, neighbors, and family members of the victims who are left with them, are unable to render first aid or emergency procedures. The timely care domain relates to reducing waits and sometimes harmful delays for both those who receive and those who give care,” Yangot said.

Yangot cited World Health Organization studies showing cerebrovascular incidents (stroke) are the second leading cause of death and the third leading cause of disability.

The WHO projected that by 2020, heart disease and stroke will become one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide.

Yangot’s ordinance moves to provide every household in all the 128 Barangays in the city to be taught basic life support and first aid psychomotor training with the aim of increasing survival rates and coordinated care for emergency response.

The Baguio City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (CDRRMO) will be tasked to provide grants to all the 128 Barangays in the city for the purpose of establishing a Basic Life Support and First Aid Psychomotor Training which may include but not limited to CPR for adults, children and infants, respectively; checking of vital signs, and first aid or nursing of contusions, burns, abrasions, punctures, lacerations and other injuries.