INDIAN VISITORS LEARN EMERGENCY TACTICS

Six senior officials from India are visiting Sussex Ambulance Service this week as part of a week-long event designed to give them an insight into how the UK emergency services plan for, and deal with, major incidents.
By The Newsroom
Published 20th Dec 2005, 10:00 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 22:36 BST

The Indian Parliament has recently passed a Disaster Management Bill, partly in response to the tsunami which struck parts of India last year.

After a brief visit to ambulance headquarters at Lewes on Monday, they will visit Shoreham ambulance station to see demonstrations of how a modern UK ambulance service deals with casualties from chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incidents.

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Later in the week they will take part in a 'table-top exercise' under the guidance of the service's Emergency Preparedness Manager Andy Parr and pay familiarisation visits to Hotel 900, the joint Police and Ambulance helicopter, which carries both a police officer and a highly trained paramedic, and the Service's training facilities.

Clinical Tutor Malcolm Finn, who has helped organise the visit said, 'Obviously the infrastructure of India is quite different to that of the UK but wherever disaster strikes there is a common theme: the need to get the best possible medical services to the victims in the shortest possible time. We are very pleased to help in any way we can and I'm sure both ourselves and our visitors will mutually benefit from this visit.'

The delegates will spend the last part of the week in London as guests of St George's Hospital, Tooting where they will look at the workings of the A&E department and then return to India at the end of the week.