The Kerala Emergency Medical Project (KEMP), which is managing the ‘108’ Ambulance Service in Thiruvananthapuram and Alappuzha, conducted an ‘Emergency Medical Care’ training for medical officers and nurses from various government hospitals in Thiruvananthapuram at the KEMP office in Technopark.
A team led by Dr Ajai Desai from Life Supporters Institutions of Health Sciences (LIHS), Mumbai, trained the participants in Emergency Medical Care. As many as 29 medical officers and 14 staff nurses participated in the two-day sessions in two batches. Hands-on training was held with lecture sessions.
‘’The training will prove helpful in building the capacity of the participants. KEMP is providing an excellent facility and delightful ambiance for the programme. More such training needs to be conducted,’’ said Dr Rajeevan, assistant director of Health Services, who inaugurated the session.
‘’We took the participants through various topics of treating emergency situations in basic life support and cardiac life support. The sessions were very interactive and we got some very good inputs from the participants,’’ he said.
‘’The success of these sessions has prompted us to extend such training to the government hospitals in Alappuzha district as well, where also we are running the 108 ambulance service,’’ said Radheesh V, South India Regional Head, Ziqitza Healthcare Ltd.
Life Supporters Institute of Health Sciences (LIHS) is a registered ‘not for profit’ organisation that addresses the huge gap in the field of emergency pre-hospital and hospital care by providing training to medical personnel, healthcare providers, paramedics, nurses, drivers and common people to provide life support medical service in emergency situations.
