St John Ambulance and AA Kenya are reaching out to at least 500 public transport drivers along the Northern corridor with free intensive First Aid training workshops aimed at mitigating incidences of post crash deaths at accident scenes.
The course dubbed 'Msamaria Mwema' is fast becoming popular with public service bus drivers as noble as it imparts essential first aid knowledge to these drivers to enable them save lives.
"The June to December pilot program seeks to see drivers plying the Mombasa-Malaba route empowered to work as professional drivers and bus crews capable of preventing road accidents, and also to good Samaritans capable of saving lives in the event of accidents," St. John's coordinator Samwel Okello said.
Speaking during the exercise on Tuesday, Okello said 70 bus drivers in Nairobi have already been trained on basic First Aid service administration.
The National Transport and Safety Authority said the Northern Transport corridor has earned itself the infamy of the highest accident black spots with as many as 80 per cent of 3,507 of fetal road accidents recorded on Kenyan transport corridors in 2014-2015 alone.
The initiative is premised on preemptive measures against road carnage on Kenya`s major highways.