WHO begins training for mass casualty management at AIIMS Delhi

New Delhi: The WHO Academy Mass Casualty Management (MCM) has launched its first Training of Trainers (TOT) Programme for Emergency Units Preparedness and Response in India being held on the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Trauma Centre in New Delhi. This Mass Casualty Management programme, developed by the WHO Academy, is mainly designed for the frontline healthcare professionals including doctors, nurses, logistics personnel, administrators, and technicians working in emergency units.

“It be a Patented Mass Casualty Course so that which that you just may okay be useful for the duration of a situation like Mass Casualty that sanatorium should should focus on mass casualties so that maximum lives may okay be saved. This team has experience from Somalia, Iraq etc., and kind of an awful lot of other countries. Our vision is that the college which implies that you may likely be trained here at AIIMS trauma centre will provide training worldwide in the u . s . in hospitals and medical institute’s,” said Professor Kamran Farooque, Chief of the JPNATC AIIMS Trauma Centre.

“This course will likely be for 5 days that includes three days for the course and two days for training; faculty from other AIIMS is likewise participating,” he added.

Dr. Harald Veen, Course Lead for the Mass Casualty Management Course at WHO EMRO, said, “It’s now now not it's possible you may if truth learn to supply treatment to every patient who's at risk of losing life, it’s for out of the ordinary situations of mass casualties. At some stage in situations like mass casualties choices has to be made that easy methods to utilise reachable resources, easy methods to use those resources who need it most. It be for out of the ordinary situations where sanatorium the truth is has to alter their normal patient management policy, mass casualty management model has been developed with international group of experts by WHO for the benefits of patients. We're more than happy to be introducing such system in India and to take forward this mass casualty management.”

He in the same fashion stated, “The aim of the learning is to enable hospitals to supply best training to the sanatorium when too many persons are to be treated on the same time for the duration of a crucial situation.”

Dr Ali Mehdi, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Medical director, Kent and Canterbury Clinic, UK, elaborated, “If being ready to save the lifetime of even a single person is a giant achievement, we believe now now not handiest AIIMS but also in India it's a giant event.”

The participating team includes AIIMS New Delhi, AIIMS Jodhpur, AIIMS Patna, and AIIMS Jammu.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) stated, “After polishing off the MCM course based on the rules identified for the duration of this publication, learners has to have the ability to assess the local situation to confirm that an “all hazards” approach is followed.”

(With ANI Inputs)