Staff Reporter
The Passing Out ceremony of 446 Rescuers trained for various Tehsils of Punjab was held at Emergency Services Academy here on Friday. Director General Punjab Emergency Services, Dr. Rizwan Naseer, senior officers from Rescue Headquarters, Emergency Services Academy, and a large number of rescuers, their parents, family, and friends attended the ceremony.
In his welcoming address, DG Dr. Rizwan Naseer took oath from passed out rescuers and congratulated them on successful completion of their professional training and becoming part of the Service and wished them a happy new year. He said that Rescue Service has rescued over 8.9 million victims of emergencies since its inception in October 2004. The Rescue Fire Service has also responded to over 154,000 fire emergencies and saved losses worth over Rs481 billion with professional firefighting on modern lines. He said that this Emergency Services Academy is not only providing training to the rescuers of Punjab but also providing technical assistance to the other provinces through Punjab Government for replication of this lifesaving model of the Service. Now, the Emergency Services Academy has trained around 20,000 rescuers for Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit Baltistan, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Balochistan.
, and Aman Foundation from Karachi since its inception. The Emergency Services Academy has become a platform of providing professional training to rescuers of all provinces of Pakistan even SAARC countries can get benefit from this training facility. Furthermore, the Academy is the only institution, which had organized first SAARC Rescue Challenge in the year 2018, Dr Rizwan said.
Earlier, the passing out cadets demonstrated their professional skills of emergency management during mock exercises of deep well rescue, water rescue, firefighting, urban search and rescue, rescue from confined spaces & rescue from height. The Minister Law along with DG Rescue Punjab distributed the best performance awards to the rescuers of the passed out batch.
