Sasaktoon Health region held a training session for first responders in our area on Saturday.

The training session, held at the Hospital, taught first responders proper techniques for providing care to those in need.

Sherry Jule is the Manager of Pre-Hospital Emergency Medical Services for the Saskatoon Health Region.

She talks about why the Health Region holds these clinics.

"Saskatoon Health Region has 300 volunteer first responders that work in 52 different communities within the health region. As part of their requirement to be a volunteer first responder, they're required to complete training once every two years, so twice a year we gather people together and get them all prepared to respond to those emergency calls."

Jule explains what makes the training day important.

"It's important for those people that attend so that they get their required mandatory training complete, but it's more important for the people of our communities. There's a lot of first responders that respond to 9-1-1 calls in communites where ambulance services aren't located, so these sometimes are the first to the scene or first to someone's home when they call 9-1-1."

Jule describes who is eligible for the training sessions.

"We open up our training sessions to any volunteer first responders that are in Saskatoon Health Region. So they can come from as far away as Strasbourg, Delisle, Vanscoy, we have people here from Middle Lake, from Humboldt. Really wherever they want to come from that they are living, they can come join us."

Another training day for first responders will be in Saskatoon in March.

You can hear more from Sherry Jule as she spoke with Bolt FM's Ryan McNally here: