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Emergency care provider / ambulance technician

Other names

Official name: Paramedic in emergency responses

emergency medical technician, paramedic practitioner, ambulance paramedic, expert paramedic, emergency response paramedic, paramedic, EMT, specialist paramedic

Emergency care

They give urgent care to sick or hurt people before and during the trip to hospital, and they work with other rescue teams.

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The work

The work

The tasks come from O*NET (United States) and ESCO (Europe), the world's two occupation databases. How the work is done can differ in Uganda; our team adds the local way where it does.

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    Perform emergency cardiac care, such as cardioversion and manual defibrillation.

  2. 2

    Perform emergency invasive intervention before delivering patient to an acute care facility.

  3. 3

    Coordinate work with other emergency medical team members or police or fire department personnel.

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Sources

Built from 7 sources · reviewed 2026-10-29

Uganda Public Service: schemes of service, job descriptions, adverts and the salary structure 2026/27

Official record

Ministry of Public Service, Health Service Commission, Education Service Commission and others; each post cites its document. Gathered by The Collar360.

Government of Uganda publications (public)

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Uganda programmes: NCHE accredited programmes and the health, vocational and teacher training bodies

Official record

National Council for Higher Education, UHPAB, UVTAB, the TVET Council, UNMC, AHPC, UNITE and others. Gathered by The Collar360.

Public registers

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Uganda labour market: UBOS (NLFS 2021, LMS 2025, UNHS, NHRS), ILOSTAT, NDP IV Human Resource Development Plan

Official record

Uganda Bureau of Statistics; International Labour Organization (ILOSTAT); National Planning Authority. Gathered by The Collar360.

UBOS and NPA publications (public); ILOSTAT CC BY 4.0

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The Collar360 Uganda research (occupations, UVQF, Public Service, labour market)

Research for this platform

Compiled by The Collar360 from public Ugandan sources, each cited with its evidence level.

Collar360; each fact keeps its own source

ISCO-08, International Standard Classification of Occupations

International classification

ISCO-08 © International Labour Organization.

Free to use with attribution

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ESCO, European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations

International classification

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.

European Commission reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU): free reuse with attribution

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O*NET 31.0 Database

International classification

Includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 licence. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.

CC BY 4.0

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In other languages

français
technicien médical des services d’urgence/technicienne médicale des services d’urgence
español
enfermero especializado en atención de urgencias/enfermera especializada en atención de urgencias
العربية
مسعف في الاستجابة لحالات الطوارئ / مسعفة في الاستجابة لحالات الطوارئ
português
Técnico de emergências médicas/Técnica de emergências médicas
Deutsch
Notfallsanitäter/Notfallsanitäterin
italiano
soccorritore paramedico/soccorritrice paramedica

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