LAHORE: A total of 446 rescuers of Basic Rescue Course 49 took an oath to service on completing their training at the Emergency Services Academy on Saturday.
The passing out ceremony of Basic Rescue Course-49 was held at the Emergency Services Academy, Lahore.
Emergency Services Department Secretary Dr Rizwan Naseeradministered the oath.
He urged the passing-out rescuers to uphold the professional standards of Rescue 1122, which had rescued over 20 million victims, responded to more than 300,000 fire incidents, prevented potential losses worth over Rs813 billion and responded to 5m emergencies through Motorbike Rescue Service with an average response time of less than five minutes.
He expressed confidence that the newly inducted rescuers would provide a sense of safety to the public in their respective areas during any emergency/ disaster.
The ceremony was attended by Ali Mustafa Dar, adviser to the chief minister on artificial intelligence, Global Cooperation & Special Initiatives, Provincial Minister for Emergency Services Khwaja Salman Rafique, Parliamentary Secretary for Emergency Services Ziaullah Shah and others. The rescuers included 16 females who also joined Rescue 1122.
Khwaja Salman Rafique said Emergency Services Academy was an academy for the entire country, where rescuers from Punjab, Balochistan, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir were receiving professional training.
Ali Mustafa Dar and Ziaullah Shah also spoke.