site.bta7,000 Emergency Medical Workers Start Five-Day Training Courses

November 25 (BTA) - Seven thousand people working with
emergency medical services and hospital emergency wards are
starting five-day training courses. This transpired during
Health Minister Kiril Ananiev's visit to the National Centre for
 Emergency Medical Training on Monday.

Cutting-edge equipment and mannequins will be used in the
process, said Prof. Nikolay Gabrovski, who heads the
Neurosurgery Clinic at Sofia Pirogov Emergency Hospital. The
teaching staff is from the Pirogov Hospital. The courses are
being provided under a project called Practical Introduction to
the Treatment of Emergency Conditions (also known by the acronym
 PULSS), financed with 7 million leva in EU funding.

A hundred and twenty new ambulances have been provided under a
Project to Upgrade the Emergency Medical Care System, and
another 280 ambulances are expected by 2021, Ananiev said. RY/VE