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Lord Mayor of Birmingham at the Saving Lives Project, Goa
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Saving grace
Rotary project aims to save lives in Goa
The Birmingham Rotary Club has established a project under its ?Saving Lives? charity trust to address certain requirements of Goa. The Saving Lives project plan has four key components which have key roles for medical, ambulance, police and fire service input. The four key areas in the project are: pre-hospital care, trauma management, disaster/crisis management and community education (life saving and accident prevention). The pre-requisite for the above project is local partnership and to find medium to long-term finance for revenue costing and sustainability.
It was in February 2002 that Dr Peter Patel of the Rotary Club of Birmingham led a team from Birmingham to carry out a study regarding the project. Based on their reports and evaluation, the Goa Institute for Pre-hospital Care, Trauma and
Disaster Management was established. Dr Suresh Amonkar, Hon. Minister for Health, Goa, and Howard Parkinson, the British Deputy High Commissioner, Mumbai, formally launched the Institute on November 17, 2002.
Since then, Rotary Club of Birmingham has been developing a partnership to help Goa develop a capability in pre-hospital trauma care and in road traffic accident extrication and first aid/trauma management
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The West Midlands Fire Service deputed two senior trainers with skills in road traffic accident extrication techniques and first aid and trauma management for four weeks.
Most recently, a team of three doctors led by Dr Mark Britnell, CEO from the University Hospital Birmingham (UHB), visited Goa. This visit was undertaken in a partnership with Rotary Clubs of Goa and Rotary Club Birmingham (UK).
The scoping visit was to assess how UHB can contribute to enhancing the pre-hospital and Emergency Medicine (Casualty) services for patients with severe injury or illness, and to deliver the established National Disaster Preparedness Course for Hospitals (NDPCH).
Dr Britnell also held meetings with the Chief Secretary and Health Secretary of the Government of Goa regarding the project.
UHB is conducting some training programmes at the Goa Medical College three to four times a year. Some of the courses are: ambulance
attendants course, para-medic technician and full para-medic course and advanced courses to post-graduate diploma level in life saving and trauma management. Trauma team building, intensivists, paediatric life saving, immediate medical care, ICU development, cardiac management and cardio-thoracic surgery, neuro-trauma are also being developed.
The international partners of the Institute are the Rotary Club of Birmingham, Asian Health Forum, Birmingham, City Hospital NHS Trust, Birmingham, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust and West Midlands Fire Service.
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The mission of the Saving Lives project is to provide top-class trained manpower and facilities for saving lives in Goa.
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