LAHORE
The 5th National Rescue Challenge started at Emergency Services Academy (Rescue 1122) on Tuesday.
Punjab DG Rescue Dr Rizwan Naseer inaugurated the Rescue Challenge. Turkish representative of Emergency Medical Services Dr Mustafa Bolkan, DG ESA Amir Hamza, Turkish medical professionals Serdar Tasezen and Fatih Karademir, Registrar Academy Dr Farhan Khalid, Provincial Monitoring Officer Mian Riffat Zia and other senior officers were present.
The event would end on December 1. Total 14 Rescue Teams from Punjab, Gilgit Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Baluchistan, Rescue Wardens from Sialkot and Lahore University are participating in seven challenges including Trauma, Fire Fit, Water Rescue, Swimming, Deep Well Rescue and Height Rescue Challenges, which are being evaluated in accordance with the international standards of emergency management by giving difficult emergency scenarios and situations to respond effectively.
The main purpose of conducting this Challenge is to encourage the emergency services across the country to enhance their professional skills and competencies to meet new challenges resulting from increasing number of emergencies.
While inaugurating the Challenge and addressing the participants, DG Rescue Punjab Dr Rizwan Naseer said such healthy competitions are necessary for improvements in professional skills of emergency services. He said: “We organised 1st National Rescue Challenge in 2011 and now its historic moment that we are organizing 5th National Rescue Challenge and next year we shall organize International Rescue Challenge and hoped Turkish Rescue Team would also participate in that Challenge”. He thanked the representatives of Medical Services for initiating exchange programme under which 40 Rescue Officers will undergo capacity building training in Turkish Training Academy in two batches in first half of next year. He appreciated the teams and asked them to show same spirit and passion while dealing to emergencies in respective districts.
Dr Mustafa Bolkan, the representative of Turkish Medical Services, while inaugurating the Trauma Challenge, said that notwithstanding we are different geographically but we have the same history and feeling of Muslim Brotherhood. “I’m happy to see the development of emergency services in Pakistan within short span of ten years,” he said, adding we will further progress in this sector together. He thanked Dr Rizwan Naseer for establishment and development of emergency services in Pakistan. Director General Emergency Services Academy Amir Hamza appreciated the brother country’s services for Pakistan in every difficult situation.
GANG: Anti Vehicles Lifting Staff Model Town arrested ringleader Imran Hussain of Malik car thief gang including its two members and recovered 21 vehicles and illegal weapons from their possession.
CCPO Muhammad Amin Wains has issued directions to anti vehicles lifting staff to smash the network of vehicle theft gangs and arrest them. On which SSP Investigation Hassan Mushtaq Sukhera and SP CRO Syed Nadeem Abbas set up special police teams headed by DSP Anti Vehicles Lifting Staff Model Town Saleem Mukhtar Butt.
The team apprehended the ringleader of Malik car theft gang including its two other members namely Wali Khan and Kashif alias Kashi and recovered 21 vehicles amounting to Rs 2.19 crore and illegal weapons from their possession. The police recovered 11 Toyota Corolla, 3 Honda City, 1 Honda Civic, 3 Suzuki Mehran, 1 Suzuki Khyber, one auto-rickshaw and one motorcycle. DIG Investigation Sultan Ch announced cash award and certificates for the team.