CHENNAI
: Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, launched a regional training centre to manage life-threatening emergencies on Friday.
The centre will train medical students, doctors, paramedics and nurses in basic life support, advanced cardiac life support and paediatric advanced life support methods as per the American Heart Association guidelines 2005.
"We need a programme that can be a pilot project, an example for the rest of the country... [given] our financial status and the system of diseases and emergencies," said Tamorish Kole, regional faculty of the association, who inaugurated a workshop to mark the launch of the centre. Emergency medical service programme was first started in 1998 in Hyderabad with support from the U.K., U.S. and Australia but the practices here are different, Dr. Kole told a gathering that included Vice-Chancellor S. Rangaswami and Pro-Chancellor T.K. Parthasarathy.
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