PDMA, PRCS launch 12 day training sessions.

KARACHI -- Following warnings of severe weather conditions, especially heat waves, Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Sindh in collaboration with Pakistan Red Crescent Society has launched a series of training sessions on heat-related emergencies.

Officials of the line departments of Government of Sindh and civil society representatives will benefit from these training sessions spanning from 18 to 29 April 2022. The venue is be Red Crescent Training Institute, Clifton Karachi, said an. official statement on Monday.

Addressing the participants at the inaugural ceremony, Kanwar Waseem, Provincial Secretary, Pakistan Red Crescent Sindh Branch, said the country faced natural calamities yearly due to climate change.

He also lauded the efforts of PDMA-Sindh in bringing together more than 85 participants from Sindh Health and Revenue Departments, nominated by all the DCs heading DDMAs in Karachi on the first day of the orientation session. "Awareness about heat-related emergencies is very important for us in the days to come so that, when participants learn first aid knowledge skills and techniques, they can save their own lives and of others as well," he added.

On behalf of the Director General, PDMA Sindh, Imdad Hussain Siddiqui, Deputy Director (Ops) PDMA said that...

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