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MoS Health launches National Emergency Life Support course for doctors, nurses, paramedics

Barsha MisraWritten by Barsha Misra Published On 2022-05-19T15:37:40+05:30  |  Updated On 19 May 2022 11:07 AM GMT
MoS Health launches National Emergency Life Support course for doctors, nurses, paramedics

New Delhi: Introducing a training module for doctors, nurses and paramedics, the Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar yesterday launched the National Emergency Life Support (NELS) courses.Apart from the training modules, the program also includes developing training infrastructure in all States/UTs to implement the NELS course and creating a cadre...

New Delhi: Introducing a training module for doctors, nurses and paramedics, the Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar yesterday launched the National Emergency Life Support (NELS) courses.

Apart from the training modules, the program also includes developing training infrastructure in all States/UTs to implement the NELS course and creating a cadre of trainers to train doctors, nurses and paramedics working in emergency departments of the hospitals and ambulance services.

"The activities under the NELS entail developing emergency life support training modules for doctors, nurses and paramedics after experts' consultations and based on the Indian context, setting up and equipping skill centres in medical colleges under Center/States to impart skill-based training on emergency life support for all categories of health functionaries, 120 skills centres to be established under SFC (FY: 2021-26) (out of which 90 skill centres are in various stage of development). This initiative will lead to creation of a pool of trained doctors, nurses and paramedics in the country with skills to provide standardized emergency life support and reduce mortality due to medical emergencies," the Ministry mentioned in a release.

"This will contribute to overall disaster preparedness and response capacities in providing emergency clinical care. NELS course is comprehensive and deals with the management of medical emergencies, surgical emergencies, cardiac emergencies, respiratory emergencies including ventilator management protocol for COVID-19 and other disease, trauma-related emergencies, obstetric emergencies, paediatric emergencies, Snake bites, poisoning etc.," it added

Accordingly, the MoS Health has requested the States for sending proposals for establishing NELS Skill Centres at their medical colleges and urged all Skill Centers to ensure that trainings are not only operationalized but also utilized to the maximum extent to improve the quality of emergency care services in the State. She also requested Disaster Management Cell to regularly interact with participating institutions and monitor their activities to make this a successful initiative.

Shri Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretary, Prof. Rajesh Malhotra, Head of Orthopedics & Chief, JPN Trauma Centre (AIIMS), Dr Atul Goel, DGHS and other senior officials from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare were present in the meeting.

Such a course was introduced by the Union Health Ministry after the Parliamentary Committee on Health had last year recommended for the same. Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that while addressing the issue of health Sector disaster preparedness & response and emergency medical services, the Parliamentary Committee had recommended the Department of Health and Family Welfare to finalize Modern Training Curriculum and Modules for National Emergency Life Support (NELS) course for doctors, nurses and paramedics.

Opining for the immediate implementation of NELS courses, the Committee had recommended the Health Department to "sensitize all States and UTs for creation of requisite training infrastructure and implementation of NELS course."

Also Read:Implement Modern Training Curriculum, Modules for National Emergency Life Support course for doctors, nurses, paramedics: Parliamentary Panel

"Disaster does not arrive with prior notice and health is the first casualty of the disaster. Strengthening of healthcare disaster preparedness is therefore the need of the hour to give the matching human response to the vicissitude of the disaster. The first and the foremost of any disaster is the deployment of disaster warriors and medical services for the affected persons on urgent basis," the Committee had mentioned in its report.

Finally the Union Health Ministry launched the course for the medical professionals and while commenting on the matter, the Union Minister of State said that till now, health care professionals in the country had to rely on foreign modules and paid courses which were not only expensive but were also limited in scope to a handful of emergencies without considering needs and priorities of our population landscape.

"Therefore, realizing the Hon'ble Prime Minister's policy of 'Make in India' and 'Atmanirbhar Bharat', the NELS provides standardized curriculum which is based on Indian context and developed in India", she stated.

Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar highlighted that the Government is committed to continuous strengthening of delivery of Covid-19 and non-Covid essential health services, with the medium to a long-term goal of enhancing preparedness capacities to manage medical emergencies and thus minimise loss of precious lives.

She stated that "Hon'ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi ji has always emphasized on providing affordable and best quality health services to the citizens. It is the need of the hou that India embarks on creating a world-class, efficient, professional and integrated system, enabled by technology, for the care of any victim of an accident, emergency or trauma in any part of the country."

Talking about the National Health Policy of 2017, she said that it envisaged the creation of a unified emergency response system, linked to a dedicated universal access number, with a network of emergency care, provision of life support ambulances and trauma management centres.

Dr. Pawar further added, "To keep pace with technological advancement advancements, parallel efforts are needed for human resource development by equipping doctors, nurses and paramedics working in emergency departments of hospitals. The training should also be imparted to those providing pre-hospital care with standardized life-saving skills, to minimize mortality due to all types of medical emergencies in the country."

Also Read: Skill centre to be set up at PGIMS at Rohtak: Haryana govt

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Barsha Misra
Barsha Misra

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    Barsha completed her MA from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal in 2018. Having a knack for Journalism she joined Medical Dialogues back in 2020. She mainly covers news about medico legal cases, NMC/DCI updates, medical education issues including the latest updates about medical and dental colleges in India. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in.

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