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After intensive training for 7 months, there are totally 30 trainees of Taipei City Fire Department 5th Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic training who have completed the evaluation and formally passed the examination held by Taiwan Society of Emergency Medicine consigned by Department of Health, Executive Yuan on December 28th, 2009.
The 5th Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic training class is jointly held by Taipei City Fire Department and Fire Bureau, Taichung City and implemented on 2009/6/8 by Taipei City Fire Department with 30 trainees. Among them, 20 trainees are from Taipei City Fire Department and 10 are from Fire Bureau, Taichung City.
Taipei City Fire Department indicated that, this training was conducted by Landseed Hospital which is approved by the Department of Health, Executive Yuan (only NTU and Landseed Hospital are allowed). Vice President of Landseed Hospital, Shiumn-Jen Liaw, who is the project host, has been assisting National Fire Agency to promote emergency medical training for a long time, and already trained more than 200 EMTPs. With his training experience and high requirement as the trainer, the EMTP trained by the 5th training must be capable with world class level skills and can take in charge of the more and more important pre-hospital emergency medical service.
During the awarding ceremony of good performance at training completion, Kuang-Hua Hsiung, the commissioner of Taipei City Fire Department, indicated that Taipei City Fire Department has held 5 EMTP trainings since 2002. The first and second training were held through the civil donation. The 3rd training is subsidized by the central government. The 4th training was held through the cooperation of Taipei City and County. There are totally 109 EMTP which have been trained. Every EMTP is with outstanding performance, and has helped with the improvement of pre-hospital emergency medical service in Taipei City.
Commissioner Hsiung indicated that, due to the rotation system of fire-fighters, there are many outstanding EMTPs who applied for the rotation one after another back to service their home towns after servicing for a certain years during the recent 7 years, and become the elites of emergency medical service in each city. However, in order to continuously train and keep the EMTP with professional skills to strengthen “the Life Chain” in Taipei City, and provide citizens the best quality service, Taipei City Mayor Lung-Bin Hau gave his full support on the budget of Taipei City Fire Department to hold the 5th EMTP training even under the situation that Taipei City doesn’t have abundant funds. It approves Mayor Hau’s attention on improving Taipei City pre-hospital emergency medical service. Commissioner Hsiung also expects there will be 20 EMTPs to join Taipei City pre-hospital emergency medical service in 2010 to support the safety of citizen’s lives and health.
Taipei City Fire Department has formed Golden Phoenix Emergency Medical Service Team for 10 years since 1999/6/1. In 2008, they had been out on mission for more than 101,855 times serving 78,092 people. In 2009, they had been out on duty for 112,599 times serving 81,679 people. In these 10 years, the donation for training funds, ambulances and medical equipments from enthusiastic groups and people had reached more than 210 millions. They also formed the first medical consulting committee, also became the only one EMTP team in Taiwan to execute advanced life support such as pre-hospital injection or medicine and execution of endotracheal intubation under the supervision of doctors of medical the consulting committee. Until 2009/12/31 they have successfully saved 276 patients who had Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.
In the survey of “Pre-hospital emergency medical service in each city of Taiwan” conducted by “Common Health Magazine” for the 2008 August issue, Taipei City is rated as the safest city. Besides being rated No.1 for “saving ability” and “saving efficiency (utilizing saving resources)”, Taipei City is also selected as the city which most actively promotes EMS by nearly 90% of the national-wide surveyed ER doctors