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Certificates for Police Life Saving Unit personnel

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa presented certificates to 20 men and women of the Police Life Saving Unit who successfully completed Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training conducted by Med 1 (Pvt) Ltd. The function was held at the Defence Ministry's auditorium on Friday.

The Sri Lanka Police has been involved in life saving since 1928 and become an official part of the National Life Saving Association when it was formed in 1947. They provide life saving support at major public events such as poson poya festivities and sporting activities. Through the years, they have continued to develop their water rescue and basic life support skills.

However, for the first time in the unit's history, they now have an elite group of twenty police men and women who have completed 200 hours of intensive EMT training by Med 1's International Medical Training Institute in Ratmalana, funded by the World Health Organisation.

The course was conducted to the same standards found in the US and met the criteria established by the Trauma Secretariat of the Minister of Health for EMT education.

Although the role of an EMT is new to Sri Lanka, these global professionals provide life saving out-of-hospital professional emergency health care.

After awarding the certificates Secretary Defence and other guests presented some mementos to the instructors of the Med 1 (Pvt) Ltd.

IGP N.K. Ilangakoon, Western Province Governor, Alavi Mawlana, CDS Air Chief Marshal Roshan Gunathilaka, P.P. Singh representative of the World Health Organisation and Senior Officers of Med 1 Institute were also present.

 

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