Georgetown : The Ministry of Health continues to train more persons to boost the health sector with a qualified and trained workforce with the aim of providing a higher level of service. Having completed an intense two- week of training, 22 persons graduated as Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs).
The EMTs are responsible for the first line in health care in any emergency health situation, taking care of patients enroute to the hospital.
During the graduation ceremony held at Project Dawn in Liliendaal, last evening, Minister of Health Dr. Bheri Ramsaran pointed out that there continues to be numerous training programmes in the health sector which will stand the scrutiny of international agencies.
“We need to take on more teams, sometimes simultaneously and be certain that the skills and training capacity that those other centers of excellence would bring would be international quality level,” Minister Ramsaran stated.
He noted that the EMTs will be saving lives since they will be extracting the patient(s) at a critical period, and transporting them, putting to use the skills they have acquired.
“The administration, while investing in you… we’re also investing in the capital side of the budget so that you have a merging of capital and recurrent…we bought ambulances and we are in the process of procuring more ambulances including specialised ambulances,” he noted.
The Health Minister urged the EMTs to apply their work ethics so as to reach a high level since they are expected to be role models in the health sector. He also advocated that they should care the equipment that they work with, and always be responsive to emergency situations.
CEO of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) Michael Khan welcomed this training programme, pointing out that it was a historical event since intense emergency training was done during the two weeks.
Meanwhile, Zulfikar Bux, Head of the Department for Accident and Emergency, GPHC encouraged the EMTs to be successful in the work for which they have been trained.
A two-week pilot project will commence for the EMTs with the use of ambulances that were recently handed over by the Health Ministry to several hospitals. This project is based only in Region Four.
Five dispatchers have also begun training in driving the ambulances.
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