NAS is immensely gratified to be blessed with yet another 40th safe delivery in the ambulance itself. Baby boy weighing 3.5 kg safely deliver in a NAS ambulance while en-route to a hospital from Hattiban to Patan Hospital, Lalitpur on 9th June at 12:30am, 2017. NAS family wishes the ambulance baby and his entire family for sound health.
NAS has a history of 38 safe deliveries inside NAS ambulance. Once again , NAS has been blessed with a baby boy (39th Ambulance baby) safely delivered on 26 May 2017 at 4:15 PM while en route to hospital. NAS wishes the entire family for the healthy life ahead and congratulate the EMTs and pilots for this blissful service.
Nepal Ambulance Service - 102 is delighted and overwhelmed to commence its service in Pokhara in coordination with Lion's Club International, 325B1 Nepal from 24 April, 2017. We are privileged to sign the MOU by NAS President Om Rajbhandary & pleased to start our service with your support and benevolence. Also, we are commencing the service in other places such as Butwal, Banepa focusing on "for the people" and "by the people". We are here for your service with the motive of " Saving lives along the way".
sNepal Ambulance Service organized a graduation ceremony for 47 Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training’s trainees on 27th February 2016 in presence of Honorable Health Minister Gagan Thapa. Training was started from 5th December to 24th December in collaboration with Patan Academy of health and sciences, Stanford University, International Medical Corps and Nepal Ambulance Service. Ceremony was hosted by Board member Neeva M. Pradhan whereas Dias was shared by Mr. Gagan Thapa as chief guest, Dr. Kedar Baral, Mr. Om Rajbhandary , Ms. Joelin Mac Mullins, Ms.Rebecca Walker and Mr. Rajesh Gongal. Also IMC donated 5 ambulances to NAS. 47 trainees received certificates from Health Minister. Program was overall good and was beneficial.
Mock Exercise is planned in many places in order to aware the local public about the NAS 102 and EMS system. It was done in Thamel area on January 2017. There were Board Members and David Amsalem( Trainer) from Stanford University)monitoring the exercise and NAS administration organizing the event. EMTs were participants and there was a huge mass of audiences.
Public awareness event was organized with the objective to increase utilization of the ambulance services as well as to create awareness on the availability of pre-hospital emergency management system; NAS will organize public awareness events in various project areas. An event on ‘ambulance service and basic first aid orientation was organized on 24th January, 2017 at Tri-Devi English High School in Kathmandu District. The event was targeted to secondary schools students and teachers. Promotional materials of Nepal Ambulance services were disseminated in these public awareness events.
There was a meeting in MoH on 11th January, 2017 regarding the ambulance service policies, integration of other ambulances beside NAS ambulances in 102, overall achievements and upcoming plans of NAS. There were participants from different head of departments from MoH, DPHO heads from Kathmandu and Lalitpur, International Medical Corps, Medical Teams International, and Board of Directors from NAS. Overall meeting was fruitful.
Mock Exercise is planned in many places in order to aware the local public about the NAS 102 and EMS system. It was done in Thamel area on January 2017. There were Board Members and David Amsalem( Trainer) from Stanford University)monitoring the exercise and NAS administration organizing the event. EMTs were participants and there was a huge mass of audiences.
Here are some glimpses of the exercise.