Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 6: Directorate of Health Services Kashmir, organized a three-day high altitude medical emergency workshop at Kashmir Skill and Simulation Center ahead of this year’s Amarnath Yatra.
The workshop aimed to create a pool of trainers to conduct the training which shall be deliberated by all the medical, paramedical & supportive staff of the Directorate of Health Services and allied departments.
Dr MA Rather Director while signifying the importance of the high altitude medical emergency training conveyed that the department has devised a training calendar and all the major stakeholders shall be trained in stipulated time before the commencement of yatra.
The resource persons for the workshop included Dr Anil Gurtoo, Prof of Medicine, Lady Harding Medical College, Dr Preeti Gupta, Associate Professor Department of Cardiology, Dr Rohit Kumar, Associate Professor Department of Pulmonology and Dr Arun Choudhary, Department of Anaesthesiology (all Safdarjung Hospitals).
The trainers acquainted the participants with the latest protocols and procedures to be adopted while managing a patient of high altitude-related illness.
The training was unique in the way the field-based and problem-solving approach was so well put across by the trainers. The real-time simulation was done as the participants did hands-on management while trekking Pahalgam and Gulmarg range.
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