The Singapore Armed Forces Medical Corp. (SAFMC) is partnering with local and international institutes to improve paramedic education.

It has inked two Memoranda of Understanding (MOU).

While one is with the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC), the second is with Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP).

MINDEF said that both the institutes are internationally renowned in paramedic education.

Both the unions include education and growth in paramedical, pre-hospital and post-surgery care.

Under the collaboration with JIBC, all permanent national servicemen (NSF) medics will undertake paramedic education to develop into Emergency Medical Technicians.

The training endeavors at fortifying their fundamental medic knowledge and endowing them with skills to offer treatment for intricate medical conditions.

NSF and regular medics with a nursing diploma will also be educated as Emergency Medical Specialists (EMS) who can give treatment for general medical emergencies like chest pains, critical allergic reactions and diabetes.

Servicemen who take either of the lessons will be given a professional certificate from the JIBC.

The MOU with NYP will offer Operationally Ready National Servicemen (NSmen) and standard medics with essential scrub medic and post-surgery vital care training performed by the Polytechnic's School of Health Sciences.

The training will help the medics to deal with the victims in an operation theatre and an intensive care unit (ICU).