Aliraza Alimohamed, a Khoja community member from London, was one of the recipients of an award presented as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in September of this year.
What is the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award?
A platinum jubilee is a celebration held to mark an anniversary. Among monarchies, it usually refers to the 70th anniversary. Queen Elizabeth II was the most recent monarch to celebrate a platinum jubilee in June 2022.
The award aims to recognise 20 excellent national charities working to empower young people and provide them with skills and opportunities, with volunteers playing a key role in delivering this work.
Who is the award presented to?
The awards were presented to National Charities, individuals with long-standing records of voluntary service to the London Ambulance Service (LAS), and those who were central to the LAS’s response operation to the COVID pandemic within London.
How is Aliraza involved?
Aliraza is a member of the Community First Responder (CFR) unit, who are trained and equipped to respond to specific medical emergencies, including chest pains, difficulty in breathing, cardiac arrests, anaphylactic shock, suspected strokes, falls, and catastrophic bleeding, among others.
His CRF team responds to call-outs equipped with AEDs, oxygen, tourniquets, raizer chairs and other peripheral equipment to assist casualties with immediate responses for recovery. The team works within the framework of LAS’s systems, communicating by radio with central headquarters to despatch full ambulance vans to CFR patients.
Aliraza joined the CFR unit in 2013 and has been an active volunteer ever since. He has seen hundreds of patients across the years and has also volunteered with the ambulance’s services at events, most recently at the funeral of the Queen in September 2022.
The Khojanews team congratulates Aliraza Alimohamed for his achievement and prays to Allah (swt) to grant him success in all his endeavours, Ameen.