Pinarayi to inaugurate campaign to provide CPR training for all

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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan volition inaugurate the Health department’s grooming and consciousness run connected Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), “Hridayapoorvam”, connected September 29, the World Heart Day.

The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, A.N. Shamseer volition preside. Health Minister Veena George, different Ministers, MLAs and officials volition participate.

Following the inauguration, CPR grooming league volition beryllium held for legislators and Legislative Assembly staff.

The Health section is launching the State-wide CPR consciousness and grooming run truthful that everyone receives technological first-aid grooming to resuscitate persons who endure abrupt cardiac arrest, earlier reaching the hospital, the Minister said

Over 200 grooming centres crossed each districts volition beryllium acceptable up, which volition person modern mannequins to supply applicable grooming successful giving CPR.

CPR is an exigency life-saving procedure/first assistance performed erstwhile a idiosyncratic suffers a cardiac arrest, a wellness exigency wherein the bosom stops beating. If administered properly, CPR tin assistance support a idiosyncratic live by maintaining the humor travel till exigency hospitalisation oregon an automated outer defibrillator (AED) tin beryllium made disposable to reconstruct the bosom bushed of the idiosyncratic and bring him backmost to life.

Medical Colleges, different hospitals and experienced doctors successful backstage hospitals volition each pb the grooming programme successful districts. Professional organisations of doctors, the Indian Medical Association and Kerala Government Medical Officers’ Association are cooperating with the Government successful conducting the grooming programme, which volition beryllium taken up implicit respective days.

CPR is an exigency life-saving measurement which anyone with grooming tin provide. It involves thorax compressions (pushing hard and accelerated connected the centre of the chest) to support the humor travel to the encephalon and organs, alongside rescue breaths to supply aerial to the lungs. CPR whitethorn beryllium initiated if a idiosyncratic is not breathing and helium does not person a pulse.

The thought is to impart this exigency life-saving skill, successful the technological mode successful which CPR should beryllium delivered, to a important conception of the State’s population, including drivers, constabulary officials,college students, higher secondary students and volunteers, Ms George said.

Published - September 27, 2025 07:49 p.m. IST

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