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BCNSP Trains Monk Caregivers under the One Temple, One Monk Initiative

18 August 2025 0 views
On 16 August 2025, Boromarajonani College of Nursing, Sanpasithiprasong organized the fiscal year 2025 ‘Monk Caregivers: One Temple, One Monk Nationwide’ training project for monks in Ubon Ratchathani. The project honored the 96th birthday, marking eight twelve-year cycles, of His Holiness Somdet Phra Ariyavongsagatanana (Amborn Ambaro), the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand. Training equipped monks with knowledge and skills in health promotion, disease prevention, and basic first aid, including vital-sign measurement, resuscitation, blood glucose testing, wound care, and tube feeding. They also learned to apply the PBRI Model seven-color traffic-light ping-pong tool to health assessment so they could care appropriately for ill monks in accordance with Buddhist teachings and monastic discipline. First aid bags were presented to representatives of participating temples to support care for monks and others when needed. Phra Khru Kosonwihankhun, Ph.D. (Chum Kusalo Phasi), Deputy Ecclesiastical Chief of Mueang Ubon Ratchathani District and Abbot of Wat Klang, offered guidance and a special lecture. Phra Khru Thirathambandit, Assistant Abbot of the royal temple Wat Maha Wanaram and secretary to the Deputy Provincial Ecclesiastical Chief, opened the training. College Director Dr. Nusara Prasertsri reported the objectives and led lecturers, staff, and students in the activity at Wat Maha Wanaram, Mueang District, Ubon Ratchathani. Reported by the college’s Corporate Communications and Public Relations Unit.