Responsible for day to day management of Facilities Medical & Rescue, including project management, bidding for new contracts, financial overview and development of new strategies and service delivery areas

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Khamnakorn Rescue & EMS is a pre-hospital care provider and training Foundation (Thai legal equivalent of an NGO), based in North Eastern Thailand. With over 30 volunteers, we are developing a new approach to the delivery of the concept of volunteer led EMS & Rescue provision.Initially, working in partnership with several key stakeholders, and are engaged in collaborative partnerships with a number of other Foundations in the North Eastern area of the country, and together we evaluating the feasibility of forming a Regional Ambulance & Rescue service, primarily led by volunteers. With plans for a pilot project in Khonkaen City, we will be providing high quality FR and BLS crews. All volunteers will be required to undergo six monthly reassessments of their skills to ensure that this quality is maintained.We also deliver award winning water safety, swimming and rescue training courses to a wide range of students (school groups through to government agencies) in KhonKaen. Thailand has one of the highest drowning rates in the world among young men and we working to ensure that this is lowered!We are in discussion with a number of organisations and bodies in Thailand as to the future role of volunteer led ambulance services and we plan to lead the way in which this service is led initially within our region, and in time, across the entire country.We are developing a range of public and community based training courses (BLS & AED) and are actively looking into the development of community resilience programs in rural areas.

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