20080111

Masjidil Angkasa

Bersempena dengan Maal Hijrah 1429 ini , STS-MC melancarkan suatu program yang dinamakan, "Masjidil-Angkasa".

Program ini adalah aktiviti penyelidikan bagi mempromosikan idea mewujudkan sebuah destinasi pelancongan orbital yang dilengkapkan dengan sebuah masjid. Masjid yang berada di orbit ini akan berfungsi sebagai destinasi pelancongan di orbit di samping beroperasi sebagai masjid. STS-MC percaya bahawa rekabentuk dan senibina Islam yang menarik yang bersejarah boleh menjadi daya penarik dan kosmetik yang efektif kepada rekabentuk dan senibina struktur orbital untuk pelancongan angkasa.

Objektif utama program ini adalah untuk mempromosikan bidang pelancongan angkasa kepada umat Islam seluruh dunia dan menggalakkan kerjasama di antara jurutera, saintis dan ulama Islam.

20080102

Ambulans Udara “Better Late Than Never"

Nation
Wednesday January 2, 2008

Department to add air ambulance service

PONTIAN: An air ambulance unit and emergency medical and rescue services (EMS) unit will be added to the Fire and Rescue Department soon.

Director-general Datuk Hamzah Abu Bakar said 20 officers had been sent to the United States for training before doing their practical at Kuala Lumpur Hospital.

They would be able to carry out basic medical procedures during emergency rescue, he said.

He said the department hoped to train 612 paramedic officers within two years. He said the air ambulance unit would be launched this year.

“We have approval for two more helicopters. Hopefully we will get them this year,” he said, adding the department currently had six helicopters.

Hamzah said the helicopters would be used at bases in Seberang Prai for the northern zone, Subang Jaya (central), Johor (southern), Sabah and Sarawak. He was speaking to reporters after closing a survival camp in Kukup near here yesterday.

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