00:01Training to save lives in the cramped moving cabin of an ambulance presents a unique challenge.
00:07But civil defense personnel in Penang are bridging that gap with a homegrown innovation.
00:11Penang's civil defense force, APM, has developed the country's first transparent ambulance trainer, TAT,
00:18a life-sized clear acrylic simulator modeled on a real ambulance cabin.
00:23The modular trainer allows instructors to observe trainees from outside
00:27while they practice procedures such as CPR in realistic conditions.
00:31As you can see, I cannot stand all the way because this is the real-life simulation of transparent ambulance
00:38trainer.
00:39And this is basically the real situation in the cabin.
00:43So we used to see ambulance from the outer, but we never see inside of the ambulance.
00:50So this is inside the ambulance, down into the space, and it's really, really complex in here.
00:56Speaking at APM North Serberang headquarters on Wednesday, Shukran said up to 200 trainees could observe demonstrations in a single
01:04session.
01:05He said the idea was driven by the need to train responders without taking ambulances off the road.
01:11In Penang, especially in Penang, 30 cases of multiple motor vehicle accidents every day.
01:19So we are facing problems and difficulties to study and to teach all of our members in the real-life
01:29situation.
01:31All of our members cannot learn from the real ambulance.
01:36Then it happens problem during real time.
01:40We make this transparent ambulance trainer that we can teach everybody without consuming petrol, without consuming anything.
01:48Then we donate the real ambulance. And the real ambulance, we can go for the cases.
01:54The fuel free trainer replicates a grade B ambulance interior, and is equipped with training equipment such as cervical collars,
02:02spinal boards, and AEDs.
02:04It can be dismantled and transported in a perodua alza, while the team is working to make it even more
02:10compact.
02:11Southwest APM officer, Captain Salman Rahimi Manaf, proposed the idea, and the prototype was developed by a 10-member technical
02:19team within 3 months at a cost of less than 10,000 ringgit using recycled materials.
02:25Similar simulators overseas, including one in Australia, can cost up to 1 million ringgit, making the Penang-developed trainer the
02:32first of its kind in Malaysia, and reportedly only the second in the world.
02:36Equipped with interactive QR codes for digital learning, the team hopes to secure funding to introduce the trainer at APM's
02:44four national academies, as well as health ministry nursing institutes and private hospitals nationwide.
02:50The innovation won the Penang APM team, the innovative and creative group category, at the national level Civil Defence Innovation
02:58Awards, earning them 5,000 ringgit, a trophy, and a certificate.
03:03Salman said he was proud of the APM officers and personnel who developed the trainer, adding that the project was
03:09initially conceived to address training gaps among APM personnel and its new recruits.
03:23a new mentor in the past and former chief Dynamics Group, went to the APM personnel in the UK, on
03:24the UK.
03:24We should have been being in the UK with the half of the ADL tools, which is a few months
03:24to say, and the APM personnel as well as the ACM team will be getting to the company's cooperative program.
03:24Sam was still looking to say, but saying, why do you have a teacher, a teacher, a teacher, an academy?
03:24a teacher, a teacher?
03:25a teacher, a teacher who talked about an Adobe card, a professor in the UK, or an engineer, an supervisor,
03:25and after an interpreter,
