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NEDC trains 10 doctors, other paramedics on basic emergency in Bauchi

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The North East Development Commission (NEDC) has commenced a 5-day training for 10 selected Doctors, Nurses and other Paramedics on Basic Emergency Care Providers Course for Emergency Healthcare Workers at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBU-TH), Bauchi on the techniques required to manage patients in life-threatening conditions.

The training was organized by North East Development Commission (NEDC) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health for healthcare providers in the North East sub-region.

While speaking during the opening ceremony on Wednesday at the ATBUTH premises, a Consultant Urologist and Chairman, Medical Advisory Council of ATBU-TH, Dr Haruna Liman said that Bauchi state is situated at a very confluence of many major trunk A roads, so, accidents and emergencies are bound to happen and it is very important to update health personnel if the appropriate care instituted at the right time to save many lives.

Liman also said that, “it is a thing joy for this hospital to be nominated to participate in this training program because is a tertiary center that does not have a well develop and elaborate emergency culture definitely is a very serious problem.”

He however explained that all the stakeholders have been carefully selected to be trained for the program and it will not stop at them because they will go back to their various units and step down the training to other staff, adding, “We hope in the course of time so many people within the hospital with imbibe this emergency culture and become proficient in the art of instituting emergency care when laid down protocols for interventions to save lives.”

The CMA added that the responsibility of delivering emergency care does not only rest in the shoulders of a doctor the person who was able to transit with the ambulance to the side of the emergency may be the best to save live at the point of occurrence and by the time the patient is brought to the hospital where elaborate investigation and treatment can be instituted other health workers can be involved.

According to hi,”ATBU teaching hospital is very grateful to the Federal Ministry of Health and North East Development Commission for taking this initiative to station this training program in this hospital and we pray that this will continue on a sustainable basis to train and retrain our staff, build capacity and give them the opportunity to cascade this training to other facilities within the neighborhood of Bauchi in order to develop the art of cutting edge of emergency care in line with global best practice.”

Earlier in his remarks, A Facilitator and Master Trainer of the training, Dr Ibrahim Sahabo said that the basic emergency care was designed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with ICRC and International Federation of Emergency Medicine, the body that provides the certification for all the participants at the training.

Ibrahim Sahabo explained that the training was aimedf at equipping the frontline health workers with the requisite skills to able to rapidly assess and manage patients in life threatening conditions, adding that before now, there was no any training that is particularly targeted at emergency care but the initiative was introduced to Nigeria in 2021.

“We now have a cohort of Master trainers in Nigeria and we hope by the end of this set of trainers at ATBU-TH we will be able to step down this training to other lesser cadre in the medical profession so as to improve the needed manpower this services,” Ibrahim Sahabo added

On his part, Representative of the State Coordinator of North East Development Commission (NEDC) in Bauchi State, Abdulkadir Ibrahim Baba charged the participants to utilize the opportunity and acquired the requisite skills and step down the knowledge to achieve the desire objectives.

He added that the training was going on across the six states of Borno, Yobe, Taraba, Adamawa , Gombe and Bauchi to update the skills of health providers on basis emergency care to save more lives in the region and the country at large.


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