When an injury or sudden illness occurs, the first step is to administer first aid. This is important to stabilise the patient and to preserve their life. Typically first aid can include cleaning cuts, dressing wounds, giving pain medication or even treating non-severe burns. You should have a first aid box at home and at the office and ensure that the first aid box items are always well stocked. The box should contain essential items like bandage roll, gloves, menthylated spirit, hydrogrn peroxide, gentian violet, plaster, band aid, face masks, syringes, thermometers. If you're taking regular medication, you may need a pill organiser to help you keep track of which medicine to take at what time. You may also find it useful have some monitors and test kits at home to test for things like malaria, typhoid, HIV/Aids, hepatitis.