Language barrier: Prospective paramedics to be tested in Urdu
RAWALPINDI: The National Testing Service (NTS) and Punjab Emergency Services have motionless to control a inspection exam for a field for recruitment of Motorbike Ambulance Service opposite a range in a Urdu denunciation instead of English.
A Rescue 1122 orator pronounced that a preference to change a denunciation was taken at assembly between a Punjab Emergency Services Director General Rizwan Naseer and supervision of NTS on Tuesday evening.
Furthermore, a preference to make a entrance exam for possibilities in puncture paramedics to be theme specific, while formerly it was ubiquitous in nature.
The measures come in a arise of a meagre series of possibilities who indeed competent for a positions, pronounced a Rescue 1122 official.
He combined that a sum of 22,000 group practical for a 800 accessible posts of puncture paramedics.
The central serve combined that usually 100 possibilities were means to pass a applicable entrance and psychological test.
He pronounced that a Punjab supervision has announced starting a Motorbike Ambulance Service.
In this regard, directives have been given to a Punjab Emergency Services to partisan 800 motorbike paramedics for 8 local domicile of Punjab within a month’s time.
Moreover, a worrying formula have compelled a dialect to negotiate with a NTS administration to discern a reasons behind a bad outcome.
Based on a successive analysis, a English denunciation being used as a middle of a exam was cryptic for candidates.
In a new advertisement, a Punjab Emergency Services has asked for uninformed applications in tests to be conducted in cities such as Rawalpindi, Lahore and Multan.
Trained paramedics would be accessible on motorbike turn a time to allot initial assist and primary diagnosis in a box of an emergency.
The aim behind rolling out these new motorbike ambulances is to yield a discerning response to puncture calls in undiluted areas of large cities as motorbikes can pierce quick in trade even during rush hours.
Published in The Express Tribune, Feb 9th, 2017.
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