mangaluru the jeeva raksha trust created by the rajiv gandhi university of health sciences and swami vivekananda youth movement has finished training 15 home guards on emergency life supportthe trust has run certified skill courses in emergency care and life support for doctors nurses and paramedics earlier the first batch of home guards finished training on friday dr kishan rao the mangaluru zonal manager of the trust said ambulance drivers and at least one person in every 3 km on highways would be trainedrao a consultant and general and laparoscopic surgeon at the aj hospital and research centre said in india emergency medical care has until recently been a neglected area though hundreds of doctors and paramedics have been trained in dakshina kannada we are keen to take these certified courses to essential care providers including ambulance drivers as they are the people who are on the field all the time and in case of an emergency the first ones to visit the spot the actions during the golden hour are crucialhe said the basic care life support course covers first aid for common emergencies control of massive external bleeding communication skills team leadership managing a cardiac arrest and safe use of a defibrillator only if the candidate scores over 70 in the test are they issued certificatessince we want to give individual attention the training programme is conducted for batches of 15 he said skillwise the home guards were amazing he added after this programme we got calls from remote villages to conduct sessions