The '5th National Rescue Challenge' started at Emergency Services Academy (Rescue 1122) on Tuesday with a resolve to enhance professional skills of emergency services.
The event will culminate on 1st December, 2016. Total 14 rescue teams from Punjab, Gilgit Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhaw, Balochistan, rescue wardens from Sialkot and Lahore University are participating in seven challenges including trauma, fire fit, water rescue, swimming, deep well rescue and height rescue challenges which are being evaluated in accordance with the international standards of emergency management by giving difficult emergency scenarios and situations to respond effectively.
Director General Rescue Punjab Dr Rizwan Naseer formally inaugurated the event. Turkish representative of Emergency Medical Services Dr Mustafa Bolkan, DG ESA Brigadier (r) Amir Hamza, Turkish medical professionals Serdar Tasezen and Fatih Karademir, Registrar Academy Dr Farhan Khalid, Provincial Monitoring Officer Mian Riffat Zia and other senior officers were present on this occasion.