First time in South Caucasus: Georgia launches paramedic training course
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The Government of Georgia is making an effort to have a paramedic on its emergency ambulances for the first time in the South Caucasus region.
The country’s Health Ministry has launched its first-ever paramedic training course - a course training doctors to give emergency medical care to people who are seriously ill with the aim of stabilising them before they are taken to hospital.
The course is four-months long and contains theoretical and practical parts. Eleven people have been selected for the first training course. After an intense theoretical course, they will go through a 45-day practical training together with ambulance crews.
Photo source: The Health Ministry's press office.
Once the course is successfully completed, the participants will receive paramedic certificates and be distributed at different regional emergency centres.
Anyone with a diploma with a major in medicine from Georgia’s accredited medical universities will be able to enroll in the course after passing specific exams.
This is the first time a paramedic training course has been launched in the South Caucasus and aims to increase the quality of handling medical emergencies.
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