Jakarta Health Department's Emergency Ambulance Technical Implementation Unit (UPT-AGD) provided basic emergency training for 178 puskesmas and hospital ambulance drivers.

This training is important for them because most ambulance drivers don't have health background

Jakarta UPT-AGD Head, Iwan Kurniawan stated, last year, basic emergency training was also given to 61 ambulance drivers.

"This training is important for them because most ambulance drivers don't have health background," he asserted, Wednesday (10/23).

In this training, he continued, drivers were trained to drive properly while carrying patients and learned about basic life support.

"That training is called defensive driving. There is difference between ambulance driver and other driver. Ambulance drivers must understand how to help patients in emergency condition," he explained.

This training is held within three days in a week for 25-30 ambulance drivers in a class. In this training, participants learn about basic life support that related to respiratory and circulation of vital organs, including to perform rescue breathing.   

"Since the beginning of the year, we have held this training gradually for all ambulance drivers," he said.