Youssef Ahmed saved a driver after suffering severe injuries, after a truck overturning in the Jebel Ali area of Dubai, finally, as he was able to stop the bleeding that nearly claimed his life, and conducted his first aid until the ambulance arrived.
Yousef works as a paramedic trained by the "Dubai Ambulance", as a volunteer paramedic, in addition to joining other volunteer work, as his total participation in volunteer work reached more than 4000 hours.
Youssef said to «Emirates Today»: “The accident occurred in the Jebel Ali region, where two trucks collided, which led to a coup, one of which resulted in three injured whose condition was medium and severe, and my traffic happened at the place at the time of the accident. The first aid was necessary for the injured, so I reached one of them and he was bleeding severely, and if his bleeding did not stop, he might die before the ambulance arrived.
He continued: «I got an intensive training course by the Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services, which I gained the necessary skills for first aid, and since I took the course the first aid box did not leave my car, in anticipation of a similar situation, which was a major reason for stopping the bleeding of the injured patient, and maintaining His psychological and physical stability, until the ambulance arrived and rushed to move him to the nearest hospital, so that the emergency department could keep his life. ”
Youssef described the experience, saying: “It was difficult moments when I saw the overturned truck, and around it were injured, and blood was flowing on the road, I recovered what I learned and trained at Dubai Ambulance Services Corporation, which qualified us for field work, and I remembered that the most important thing that distinguished the paramedic’s work was the speed of response, and the benefit From the golden moments that precede the arrival of the ambulance, or the transfer of the patient to the hospital and his delivery to the doctor, and indeed the injured were taken to the nearby hospital and their treatment completed.
Youssef, who works in the field of public relations, added that he “has been doing volunteer work for more than 10 years, and the number of hours of volunteer work in which he has participated, to date, is more than 4000 hours.” He called on community members to participate in volunteer work as a national and humanitarian duty. In the first class.
For his part, the Executive Director of the Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services, Khalifa Bin Dray, stressed that the Foundation has been keen on qualifying generations of trained and qualified paramedics to save critical cases as soon as possible, through the "Madinaty Tasfini" initiative, which aims to achieve a rapid response to people with serious cases from Heart patients, especially those with seizures.
He said, "The roles of volunteers from the paramedics are no less heroic and not sacrificing than the paramedics working in the institution."