{"id":15395,"date":"2025-12-17T04:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/12\/17\/training-thousands-emergency-preparedness-punjab\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T04:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:01:43","slug":"training-thousands-emergency-preparedness-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/?p=15395","title":{"rendered":"Training Thousands in Emergency Preparedness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A province-wide safety campaign led by the Emergency Services Department Punjab has trained more than <strong>22,500<\/strong> students and staff in emergency preparedness through coordinated evacuation drills across educational institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Lahore topped the provincial monitoring report by conducting drills in <strong>49<\/strong> institutions and training <strong>3,170<\/strong> individuals, including <strong>2,919<\/strong> students and <strong>251<\/strong> faculty and staff. Rawalpindi followed with <strong>1,835<\/strong> participants trained, reflecting strong local coordination in both districts.<\/p>\n<p>Muzaffargarh staged drills in <strong>11<\/strong> institutions and trained <strong>1,433<\/strong> participants with a notable share of staff involvement. Sahiwal reported <strong>1,164<\/strong> trainees while Gujranwala recorded <strong>938<\/strong> participants through exercises held in schools, colleges and other educational setups, and these districts were recognised for consistent engagement during the monitoring period.<\/p>\n<p>Across Punjab the campaign reached <strong>277<\/strong> schools, <strong>100<\/strong> colleges, <strong>8<\/strong> universities, <strong>1<\/strong> madrassa and <strong>6<\/strong> other institutions, with the overall breakdown showing <strong>20,757<\/strong> students and <strong>1,747<\/strong> faculty and staff trained in emergency preparedness.<\/p>\n<p>Mid-ranking districts including Bahawalnagar, Layyah, Multan, Rajanpur and Faisalabad each trained between <strong>700<\/strong> and <strong>900<\/strong> individuals and officials said these areas have clear capacity to expand coverage by adding more institutions to daily drills.<\/p>\n<p>At the lower end of the ranking, districts such as Murree, Hafizabad, Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin and Narowal reported fewer drills and trainees. Authorities acknowledged logistical constraints but urged these districts to accelerate implementation so that emergency preparedness across Punjab is more uniform.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency Services Punjab officials emphasised that the evacuation drills form part of a continuous safety campaign to strengthen response awareness among students and educators and encouraged lower-ranking districts to increase the pace of training and broaden outreach to ensure safer educational environments province-wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency preparedness training reached 22,500+ students and staff across Punjab, with Lahore and Rawalpindi leading evacuation drills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}