Rescue 1122 starts BLS, fire safety training for students

The Punjab Emergency Service Rescue 1122, Community Safety and Training Wing Rawalpindi has started basic life support (BLS) and fire safety training for college students to utilise summer vacation to benefit students in colleges.
The training has been started on the directions of Punjab Emergency Service Rescue 1122 Director General Dr Rizwan Naseer. The programme has been launched from June 11 for different colleges of district Rawalpindi under the supervision of Deeba Shahnaz, emergency officer, community training, and the programme will continue till July 7. In this programme, volunteer students will be trained on ‘Basic Life Support and Fire Safety Orientation Course’ through lectures, presentations and practical demonstrations. The students will be imparted a three-day training and evaluated by written and practical test on the third day of the course.
The students who will attend all sessions and secure 70% marks in post test and also will be able to perform practical skills will be considered successful in this course and will be issued certificates.
Blood sugar levels can identify people with
pre-diabetes: An “early and aggressive” approach to people on the cusp of developing Type 2 diabetes is justified to reduce cases of the disease, a study suggests. People with “pre-diabetes” have higher blood sugar than normal which has not yet reached diabetic levels, BBC health reported.
Some measures, such as weight loss and more exercise, can reverse pre- diabetes. The study, by the US Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group, tried to determine how effective the treatment was at preventing Type 2 diabetes.
It followed 1,990 people with pre-diabetes. Some were being treated through drugs or lifestyle change, others were not.
It showed patients who reduced their blood sugar levels to normal, even briefly, were 56% less likely to develop Type 2 diabetes during the six years of the study.
This analysis draws attention to the significant long-term reduction in diabetes risk when someone with pre-diabetes returns to normal glucose regulation, supporting a shift in the standard of care to early and aggressive glucose-lowering treatment in patients at highest risk. Identification of regression to normal glucose regulation could be an important way to stratify people into those at higher and lower risk of progression to diabetes.