42 Bhopal-Central Jail convicts, including women, being trained as paramedics
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Forty-two prisoners, including four women inmates, of Bhopal Central Jail, several of them serving life sentences for murders, are undergoing a paramedical course with authorities claiming that it might be a first-of-its-kind initiative for any jail in the country.
"The course started on June-1. I haven't ever heard of prisoners doing this course in any other jail in India," Jail Superintendent Dinesh Nargava said.
Paramedics training
Convicts who cleared Class 10 were chosen for training
Nargava said as part of paramedical course being conducted for free by Bhopal-based People's University, the prisoners were being trained to dress wounds and administer intravenous therapies among other life-saving measures.
"Only those who had cleared Class X had served at least five years of their sentence and had shown good behavior in jail were chosen for the course," he informed.