PESHAWAR: A daylong basic life support course was arranged for the newly-inducted house job doctors at the Khyber Teaching Hospital so they could cope with critical patients in wards.

About 28 health care professionals received certificates at the end of the day, a press release said on Tuesday.

They were given practical training by associate professor Dr Amber Ashraf of cardiology ward, associate professor Sadia Ashraf of pulmonology ward and senior registrar casualty Dr Asad Maroof.

On this occasion, Shah Jehan, member board of governors of the Medical Teaching Institution (MTI) Khyber Teaching Hospital, laid stress on practical application of the knowledge by doctors.

He said that such courses were mandatory for every health care provider working abroad and continuous medical training was the best way to improve the patient care.

He praised the efforts of facilitators and their devotion to the teaching and training.

Prof Roohul Muqeem, medical director of the hospital, gave away the certificates and highlighted the need for such courses in the prevailing law and order situation in the region.

He said that advanced life support courses would be started soon.

Hospital director retired Brig Fazle Akbar said that these courses were highly important for the health professionals to save the lives of the seriously-ill patients, especially those from insurgency-hit areas, road traffic accident, fire arm injuries, etc.

Mr Akbar said that the aim of this training was to reduce the deaths from casualties and train the individuals on how to give first aid to the patients in emergency situations.

Published in Dawn, September 28th, 2016