The University of Hyderabad (UoH) through its component school; the School of Medical Sciences as the nodal centre, has entered into a broad-based Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with EMRI Green Health Services (GHS), Hyderabad for a period of 3 years.

The activities under the MoU would broadly be in the area of Capacity Building and Training, Collaborative Research, Student and Faculty Exchange in the domain of Emergency Health Care Services.

As part of this and as an initial offering, University of Hyderabad, and EMRI GHS, a pioneer and professional emergency care not-for-profit organisation, have jointly designed and developed a unique 3-credit educational module that is blended to ensure enhancement of relevant knowledge, acquisition of life support skills to individual participants.

A “trainer of trainer – (ToT)” hub and spoke model for the university stakeholders as well as an interdisciplinary course at the College of Integrated Studies, UoH will be rolled out very soon. After successful completion of the course, as per the laid guidelines, the participants would receive a certificate of “Trained Basic Emergency Care Volunteer” jointly issued by UoH-EMRI, which could be also be part of the Academic Bank of Credits as per the National Education Policy (NEP) guidelines.