Upgraded ambulance services to include EMTs, trained drivers

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(L to R) Stephan Russ, Associate Chief of Staff at the Vanderbilt University; Nicolas Forget, Director of the GPHC Masters Programme in Emergency Medicine; Zulfikar Bux, new Head of Department of the Accident & Emergency Unit at GPHC; Corey Slovis, Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University; and John Paul Rohde, Medical Director of the Vanderbilt Emergency Department and project leader for the Vanderbilt/GPHC collaboration.
(L to R) Stephan Russ, Associate Chief of Staff at the Vanderbilt University; Nicolas Forget, Director of the GPHC Masters Programme in Emergency Medicine; Zulfikar Bux, new Head of Department of the Accident & Emergency Unit at GPHC; Corey Slovis, Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University; and John Paul Rohde, Medical Director of the Vanderbilt Emergency Department and project leader for the Vanderbilt/GPHC collaboration.

Improved ambulance services countrywide are being planned for the start of next year, with trained drivers and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) to administer care to patients en route to the hospital.

This is according to Zulfikar Bux, the newly-appointed Head of Department for Accident & Emergency at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), who made the disclosure during a press meeting held yesterday morning at the GPHC.

“EMTs with excellent skills will be able to respond to more and more emergencies so that eventually