Meg Ahern, LifeFlight – Training in Mt Isa (16 March)

0:00Welcome back to Rural Queens Land today, Ben Doblin with you this morning. Megahearn from Lifeline joins us this morning and a first-minute matter course will be taking place in Mount Isar later in the week. Meg, good morning. Thank you so much for being with us. Thanks Ben. Good to be here. Can you please, and look, we know how important Lifeline is. Just tell us about this first-minute matter's program and how important it is. Well, look, it's really important. It's particularly for areas like Northwest Region, Mount Isar and those sort of areas. It's a massive vast space. It's over 300,000 square kilometres, but only home to listen 1% of Queensland's population. So particularly for areas like that that are so remote, it's a lot harder or takes a lot longer for medical help to arrive, to you, particularly guys. So if we can school you up on what to do in those first crucial

1:04minutes of an emergency trauma, we're hoping that by doing that, we're going to give you a much better outcome in the long run. It is so true, and I mean, life-wide do amazing things, only recently. I mean, they saved rescued people with the flooding at Tobamori out in that way, but we've really got to try and get more people knowing the real process when there's emergency, when you guys are on your way, when you guys are being called, if you're somewhere there. So you're holding a course that was going to happen earlier in the month, obviously, due to flooding and everything that's gone on, it was cancelled. So when is the course and how do people register? Okay, so it's course is going to be held at our beautiful new hangar, at the manorised airport. It's on this coming Friday, the 20th of March, and I urge anyone to get on to our website, it's all lowercasefirstminutesmatter.org.au, and it'll link you through to our QR code

2:12for registering. And that's the big thing, isn't it? There's opportunity there, and obviously, as you say, there's people can register. You go to lifeflight.org.au and follow the first minutes matter program, it's all there. There is online courses, but this workshop, you can register, and it's there for you, isn't it? It's absolutely right to go. Yeah, and it's a great face to face, you know, as you said, we do do online ones, but this is, you know, you can come along, have a, you know, it's a really fun, nice day, like it's not, I think some people can be a little bit resident sometimes about, you know, going to a course, what to expect, and they're a little bit worried when they sort of walk in. But look, it's a really good informative course, but done in a casual way. It's a very, you know, I let you know things, you know, in a way that, you know, it's not medical talk, you know, it's so, you understand it, I think, and I think the big thing

3:13also is that it's free, you know, or asking for, is your time. It's a completely free community funder course, but that doesn't downplay how vital it is and how much, how many life-saving skills you learn from it. Yeah, it's so true. Lifeflight is the backbone. I talk about flying, I talk about lifeflight, they are the two most important organisations because they save lives. And when there's an accident, when there's been a tragedy, you and you're first there, yep, sure they get cool, but they just can't click your fingers. And when you're in vast places of land, you need to know what to do. These online courses are free, they are there, they are available, and one will be running in Mount Isar on Friday. Now to register, first minutes matter program at lifeflight, just go to lightflight.org.au, it's all there, and then first minutes matter, it's all there. If you can't make it, there are online courses as well,

4:17but these workshops are special. Meg Aherne will make it fun, she's just guaranteed, she's just said, it's going to be all right. Meg, I hope it goes well, really appreciate your time. It's such important, that hanger is spectacular out there as well. So, congratulations to everybody involved, I mean, you guys, look a lot of philanthropy, a lot of donations have to come for this, and it's so important that people realize and donate because it's such an important part of the DNA lifeflight, it's just so important to have. Yep, sure, and we have our open day too for everyone on Saturday, the next day as well, out at the hanger. So, our official, official open day is happening before we get in. Awesome, awesome, really appreciate your time this morning. Meg Aherne from Lifeflight, that course is on Friday, the open day at the hanger in Mount Isar on Saturday. Thanks so much for being with us this morning. Thanks, Ben. Good on you. We're going to take a break, come back, still plenty more to get through. This is Rural Queen's End of Day.