LUMS students completed emergency relief training from RICE University

Lahore, The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) has sent four students to the Rice University in Houston, Texas for training of developing an emergency medical technician curriculum to coach and educate volunteers and learn expertise to carry on providing services as the first responders to campus medical emergencies.

These students are members of the LUMS Emergency Medical Service (EMS) that was sent by the university to widen awareness about the significance of emergency relief training. LUMS EME President Babar Asad said that the students completed a two weeks training course at the Rice University, which integrated observing their emergency club’s network. After coming back these students will now share their skills and expertise with the students of other universities.

During their stay at the Rice University, the four students of LUMS communicated with the university President Leebron Rice and his spouse. The students, Nada Afaq, Zubair Anis, Jamal Abdul Nasir and Madiha, who came back last week after a two-weeks stay in the US, had been registered in different departments and are members of a club called EME, considered to be a pioneer of the idea to start an emergency club in the country’s universities, certified in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

According to the LUMS administration, the EMS hopes to develop an emergency medical technician curriculum to train volunteers and learn skills to continue providing service as first responders to campus medical emergencies.

The tendency of university students’ participation in emergency services as volunteers is a uncommon phenomenon in Pakistan, but is quite common in the US and other European countries.