LAHORE: “We try our best to pass each candidate participating in different courses of basic medical aid,” says Chief Instructor Disaster Relief for Irish and Pakistani People (DRIP) Dr Nauman talking to Pakistan Today on Monday.
The DRIP Chief Instructor Dr. Nauman told Pakistan Today that 43 Rescue 1122 officials (trainers) and 5 Edhi Ambulane Service staff attended a basic medical aid course, Emergency First Responder (EFR).
Dr Nauman said DRIP started the program to better rescuer skills with the EFR course training rescuers for the first four minutes of emergency response.
Relaxed criterion: “We have a relaxed criteria for passing candidate participating in the course”, said Dr. Nauman. “After the completion of the course, we take two tests, a written paper and a skill’s presentation before passing candidates”, said Dr Nauman. “Candidates failing either were given another chance to pass,” he said.
On November 27 the EFR course was initiated for the failing Rescue 1122 staff. Of appearing Rescue 1122 candidates 8-10 failed the written test and 15 failed the skill presentation test. The failing candidates presented themselves for the tests again.
Lack of professionalism: “While our policy is to pass every candidate that appears in the course, we experienced behavioral problems and a lack of professionalism from Rescue 1122 officials. One Rescue 1122 official even left the course in the middle,” the DRIP chief instructor complained. A Rescue 1122 press release attempting to clear the air over Rescue 1122 official professionalism claimed that all Rescue 1122 officials passed the course – but after ‘remediation.’
Contrary to the claims of Director General Rescue 1122 of an educated and well trained staff, the press release confirmed Rescue 1122 officials passed the exam at their second and third attempts.
