Last week, as part of the Druk Sokchop Bhutan Life Saver’s Course, a four-day training on Neonatal Basic Life Support (NBLS) and Neonatal Advanced Life Support (NALS) was conducted in Mongar. Six certified resource persons facilitated the training for thirty-nine participants, including doctors, interns, nurses, and emergency medical responders (EMRs) from various eastern health centers.
The training is a blended learning approach, where participants first completed online training through OpenKGUMSB, followed by in-person hands-on sessions.
The main objectives of the training were to save newborn lives through evidence-based interventions immediately after birth and beyond, to train instructor candidates in the NBLS/NALS courses, and to enable these instructors to further train future NBLS/NALS providers.
As an outcome of the training, twelve participants were certified as NBLS/NALS instructors, while twenty-seven participants were certified as NBLS/NALS providers. The training was organized with funding support from UNICEF.
