Training stressed to handle medical emergencies

LAHORE : Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI) and Lahore General Hospital Principal Prof Muhammad Alfreed Zafar has said that saving lives is the first duty of doctors and medical staff while in case of emergency basic medical training and necessary awareness must be given to public so that they can voluntarily save valuable human lives without wasting time.

Training should be imparted to volunteers to restore breathing in a sudden heart attack and state of unconsciousness. Volunteers should play their role in providing immediate medical assistance like in developed countries. Citizens should immediately come forward and carry out their duties in emergencies, said the PGMI principal while addressing a training workshop organised by the Surgical Unit II of Lahore General Hospital. A

ssociate Professor Dr Amana Javed was the course director while the Surgical Unit II Department head Prof Dr Muhammad Farooq Afzal was patron of the workshop. Prof Khalid Bashir, Dr Ajmal Farooq, Dr Shabbir Chaudhry, Dr Ahmed Naeem, Dr Falik Malik, Dr Neelam Wajid, Dr Basharat Nazir, Dr Sidra Jawad and Dr Hafiz Muhammad Imran also participated in the hands-on training workshop. Dr Atif Akram, Dr Muhammad Usman and Dr Faisal Javed Mir gave lectures on the fundamentals of surgery. They performed various physiological operations for staff training for doctors in the workshop. Talking to the media on the occasion, Muhammad Alfreed Zafar said further training workshops would be organised to save the lives of patients in emergencies.

He said, “This is a concept of voluntary service developed in the developed countries and it must be common in every society.”