NEDC Trains Doctors, Others On Emergency Care In Bauchi

North East Development Commission (NEDC) in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Health has started a five-day training for 10 doctors, nurses and other paramedics on basic emergency care providers courses for emergency healthcare workers in Bauchi State to save lives in the region and the country at large.

At the opening ceremony yesterday held at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital (ATBU-TH) in Bauchi, a consultant urologist and chairman of the Medical Advisory Council of ATBU-TH, Dr Haruna Usman Liman, said the participants were selected for the programme, adding that it will not stop at them because they will go to their various units and step down the training to other staff.

According to him, Bauchi is situated at the confluence of many major trunk roads so accidents and emergencies are bound to occur and that it is important for appropriate care to be instituted at the right time to save many lives.

Liman said that it is a thing of joy for the hospital to be nominated to participate in the training programme because a tertiary centre that does not have a well developed and elaborate emergency culture has a very serious problem.

He said, “We hope in the course of time so many people within the hospital will imbibe this emergency culture and become proficient in the art of instituting emergency care when laying down protocols for interventions to save lives.”

On his part, a representative of the state coordinator of North East Development Commission (NEDC) in Bauchi State, Abdulkadir Ibrahim Baba charged the participants to utilise the opportunity and acquire the requisite skills and step down the knowledge to achieve the desired objectives.

Baba said that the training is going on across the six states of Borno, Yobe, Taraba, Adamawa, Gombe and Bauchi.

Earlier, a facilitator and master trainer at the event, Dr Ibrahim Sahabo, said that the basic emergency care was designed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in collaboration with ICRC and International Federation of Emergency Medicine, the body that provides the certification for all the participants at the training.

Sahabo explained that the training is aimed at equipping the frontline health workers with the requisite skills to be able to rapidly assess and manage patients in life threatening conditions.