By EMS1 Staff
HYDERABAD, India — Uber drivers in India will be more than transportation services — they’ll be trained in first aid as well.
Uber officials announced Monday that they will be teaming up with a hospital chain and ambulance agency to train Uber drivers in first aid, reported the Times of India.
“Call Ambulance in partnership with Continental Hospitals and over 50 other Hyderabad-based partner hospitals will facilitate a training program that will enable Uber driver partners to learn ‘lifesaving skills,’ including providing rescue chest compressions and first aid for medical, trauma and environmental emergencies,” Uber said in a press release.
Uber drivers will become part of the ‘100K First Responders’ network, and will be able to assist during a medical emergency.
“Through this partnership … our driver partners will be better equipped to handle basic emergency and lifesaving situations through professional training, that we believe is necessary and a skill that is more useful and helpful for our driver partners to have,” Deepak Reddy, the Uber general manager in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh said during the partnership launch.