After three weeks of intense training, 22 persons graduated yesterday as fully qualified Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) or Ambulance Technicians, at the Project Dawn facility in Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.EMTs or Ambulance Technicians are terms used in some countries to denote a healthcare provider of emergency medical services. EMTs are clinicians, trained to respond quickly to emergency situations regardingThe EMTs along with officials from the GPHCmedical issues, traumatic injuries and accidents scenes.EMTs are trained to assess a patient’s condition, and to perform emergency medical procedures as needed to maintain a patient’s airway with adequate breathing and cardiovascular circulation until the patient can be transferred to an appropriate destination for advanced medical care.Interventions include cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillation, controlling severe external bleeding, preventing shock, body immobilization to prevent spinal damage, and splinting of bone fractures.Those who graduated are Sandor Walcott, Julian Adams, Ann Marks,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, Eon Goppy, Bhavana Persaud, Stacey Parris, Joseph Paul, Rushell Lopes, Soniel Sampson, Mitchael Hanex, Trecia Pindal, Joseph Arjune, Naomi Klass, Candacie Shaw,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, Gary Anselmo, Alicia Garnett, Pablino Cupido, Jermaine Ifill, Dichelle Fernandes, Russell Lopez, Khemlata Shewram and Sereste Frank.Emergency Medicine Specialist, Dr. Zulfikar Bux from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) spearheaded the training with the support from experts of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States.“First of all let me congratulate the graduates of the first ever EMT programme for the public health system in Guyana. You are a part of a privileged group, you must realize that this is history in the making in Guyana and you are identified as leaders in Emergency Medical response system for not just Georgetown, but in Guyana,” Dr. Bux related.He encouraged the graduates to work together as a team and moved the Emergency Medicine system for Guyana forward.“Today (yesterday) marks an important event in the beginning of your lives as EMTs and you have a lot of work ahead of you but also remember that this is something that you as a group have a chance to expand and model it as much as you want together.”Dr. Bux said that the GPHC is taking the lead in doing a pilot ambulance authority project and once it is successful,Wholesale Adidas Hockey Jerseys, the plan is to make it a national one.GPHC’s Chief Executive Officer, Michael Khan said that it was a historic occasion for Guyana.“Although we have done EMT training before, this is the first time we have done intense emergency training,Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys, where all of you will be shortly riding ambulances and putting your skills to use,” Khan said.Shannon Langston, from the Vanderbilt University, said it is a start of a new profession in Guyana. “You will be going out into the streets and into people’s homes where they are sick and injured,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, and give them the care they deserve and transfer them to the hospital.”The Minister of Health,Cheap Wholesale Jerseys, Dr Bheri Ramsaran congratulated the graduates and encouraged them to “push themselves”.