14 Newly Trained EMT Technicians Receive Certificates  

Fourteen newly trained EMT technicians received certificates after successfully completing the three-month course today. The training was offered by the Belize Emergency Response Team, BERT, whose Executive Director, Susan Ferguson told News Five that the training covered topics that first-responders would find and must deal with in patients. The valedictorian, Chassen Rodriguez said that he is the head of security at B.S.I. in Orange Walk, so having this training comes in handy for on-the-job scenarios that might arise.

 

Chassen Rodriguez, Valedictorian, EMT Graduation

“I already work  in security field where we deal with emergency incidents and so forth. So it’s just something that I really wanted to do something that I’ve seen that I’ve had a passion in, and just decided to take on a challenge. I live in Orange Walk, so it was just basically traveling every day.  To be a part of the class putting in that extra hour to study, going home, standing on the bus.  It’s just basic sacrifice that you need to do if you want to excel in something. Being a first responder, knowing how to deal with different situations, different patients, you have medical patients, trauma patients. You get to a scene, you don’t know what you’re gonna expect, you just gotta be ready. The training prepared us to deal with all of that. Different types of sicknesses diseases, and different types of injuries, how to approach the scene, just ensuring overall safety.”

 

Susan Ferguson, Executive Director, BERT

“In this course, they learn everything from the jargons needed in EMS field. They learn about lifting, you learn about blood, about…”

 

Marion Ali

“CPR.”

 

 

Susan Ferguson

“Yes, they learn about CPR, all the different measures to save lives. They learn how to do a correct IV, different medications. They learn about while they are not able to administer them, but they are knowledgeable in the field of what to give and what not to do. It is a very challenging field and one of the main purposes, so one of the main source, it has to come from family support. And so you found that while your passion may be towards EMS, the timing that it takes you from family, from enjoying your life conflicts with that. And you have to have a passion for EMS. You have to have that passion within you to continue, that road that you’re on.”