Over 100 final year students of MIET Polytechnic College participated in the day-long first aid training programme organised by the St. John Ambulance First Aid Training Centre at the college premises recently.

D. Ravindra Ganesan, secretary of St. John Ambulance, Tiruchi Centre, spoke on the importance of imparting first aid training to students. R. Subramanian imparted training on various first aid techniques.

M. Rajagopalan, principal, urged participants to create awareness of importance of first aid among rural masses. P. Dinesh Kumar, lecturer, ECE department and D. Mohamed Raffic, lecturer in English, spoke .

source: http://www.TheHindu.com / Home> National> TamilNadu / by Special Correspondent / Tiruchi, February 12th, 2013