NEW DELHI:The Union Health Ministry has rolled out a training module on National Emergency Life Support (NELS) for doctors, nurses and paramedics.
This training module will lead to the creation of a pool of trained doctors, nurses and paramedics in the country with skills to provide standardised emergency life support and reduce mortality due to medical emergencies.
The course is comprehensive and deals with the management of medical emergencies, surgical emergencies, cardiac emergencies, respiratory emergencies including ventilator management protocol for COVID-19 and other disease, trauma-related emergencies, obstetric emergencies, paediatric emergencies, snake bites, poisoning etc. “Till now, health care professionals in the country had to rely on foreign modules and paid courses which were not only expensive but were also limited in scope to a handful of emergencies without considering the needs and priorities of our population landscape.
This NELS provides standardised curriculum which is based on Indian context and developed in India," said Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar, union minister of state for health and family welfare while releasing the training module.