Daily Times

LAHORE: 20 officers and instructors from the Punjab  Emergency Services (Rescue 1122) department have been sent to Turkey to obtain training in emergency & disaster management, health care system, training, monitoring and other related mechanisms.

A press release from the department informed that Punjab Emergency Services Director General Dr Rizwan Naseer gave a final briefing to the trainees before their departure on Saturday morning. He urged the officers to seek maximum value from this opportunity.

The DG appreciated the role of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, giving him credit for his continuous support and patronage. The members of the departing delegation included DD HR Dr Foaad Shahzad Mirza, Provincial Monitoring Officer Mian Riffat Zia, Academy Registrar Dr Farhan Khalid, Rawalpindi DEO Dr Abdur Rehman, RY Khan DEO Dr Abdul Sattar, DD HQ Dr Azam, Attock DEO Mian Ashfaq, , EO IT Naeem Murtaza, Head of Training Muhammad Ahsan, Adjutant Dr Ali Imam Syed, Head of Medical Training Dr Ahtesham Mazhar, PRO Shahnaz Akhter, Lahore Operations EO Dr Rizwan Ahmad Ch, Okara DEO Zafar Iqbal Shaheen, Senior Instructor Training Muhammad Irfan Khan, Lead Instructor Nursing Mehboob Alam, Nursing Instructor Sajid Ali, Nursing Instructor Azeem Ashraf, Nursing Instructor Ashraf Ali Anjum and Instructor Saqib Ali.

After seeking training, these officers and instructors will further impart training among the rest of the rescuers when they return. Dr Naseer noted that the province’s Rescue 1122 service was contributing towards the health care system by providing emergency care to helpless victims since its inception in 2004. He added that in recent past, due to the sincere efforts of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and CM Shahbaz Sharif, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan had agreed to extend his all-out support to improve Pakistan’s health care system.

Consequently, he added, different departments from Turkey were providing their technical support and training to the provincial departments especially the health care system, which was being improved on a war-footing basis.