Push for more children to learn CPR

The Heart and Stroke Foundation is pushing for more school-aged children to learn CPR.

This from Medical Director at the Emergency Cardiac Care Department of the Foundation, Dr. Anne-Marie Cruickshank.

Dr. Cruickshank, who is also head of the Accident and Emergency at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, says when CPR is taught in schools there is a general strengthening of the community’s safety.

She made the point as she reviewed the success of the CPR in Schools pilot programme at the headquarters of the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Dr. Cruickshank says they are hoping to add more schools to the CPR training programme going forward.

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