First time in South Caucasus: Georgia launches paramedic training course

The Government of Georgia is making an effort to have a paramedic on its emergency ambulances for the first time in the South Caucasus region. 

The country’s Health Ministry has launched its first-ever paramedic training course - a course training doctors to give emergency medical care to people who are seriously ill with the aim of stabilising them before they are taken to hospital.

The course is four-months long and contains theoretical and practical parts. Eleven people have been selected for the first training course. After an intense theoretical course, they will go through a 45-day practical training together with ambulance crews.  

Photo source: The Health Ministry's press office.

Once the course is successfully completed, the participants will receive paramedic certificates and be distributed at different regional emergency centres. 

Anyone with a diploma with a major in medicine from Georgia’s accredited medical universities will be able to enroll in the course after passing specific exams. 

This is the first time a paramedic training course has been launched in the South Caucasus and aims to increase the quality of handling medical emergencies. 

The first course was launched this Saturday and will end in 2018.