Six people were injured today in a serious traffic accident that happened today on the road Krupac – Bjelasnica. One of the first people to arrive at the scene of the accident was Dzana Kapic, president of the Youth Red Cross of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
She is a certified first aid instructor and recently a doctor of medicine.
As Dr. Kapic pointed out in an interview with the “Avaz” portal, she accidentally ran into the accident while returning from Igman.
“I have been in the Red Cross all my life. I have been dealing with first aid since 2007. Such accidents have happened before. Honestly, never such a big accident, so terrible that it seemed. The first time I found myself at the scene of an accident was in elementary school,” Dr. Kapic said.
She points out that when she arrived at the scene of the accident, she reacted instinctively and that she saw only one car at first.
“I didn’t see the other car at all. And I stopped because I saw a woman sitting on the other side of the road and bleeding. I approached her and in it I saw another car, that there were still many people.”
The driver from the “Monti” hotel also stopped in front, even though he was driving guests from the hotel to the airport. But he stopped to help people. And he had a big first aid kit. Compared to our small car kits, his first aid kit is bigger and more equipped. That really meant a lot to us,” says Kapic.
And then people started to stop.
“It was a shock to everyone, considering that one lady had quite an open wound on her head. The cut was along the forehead and to someone who hasn’t experienced it, it looks gruesome.”
This brave, young doctor points out that at first she did not know who was and who was not injured.
“One car was in a ditch and people were getting out of the ditch, while others stood on the side and watched. It was only important for me to do the triage. I looked at who I had, I asked if they had called the emergency services, they said they hadn’t and then the van driver of the “Monti” hotel said “I’ll call them.” I told him that we need two vehicles as a minimum, and we called two vehicles and then we realized that we need more vehicles because there were six victims.
In the end, four ambulances arrived at the scene of the accident and treated the victims.
At the end of the conversation, Dr. Kapic emphasized that first aid actually saves life.
“Because each of us can find ourselves in a situation where we need it. It can be self-help, it doesn’t have to be help provided to another person. If we don’t know how to recognize suffocation, unconsciousness, the need for resuscitation or bleeding, we can lose someone close to us, and first aid education is not difficult,” concluded Kapic.
