With children and members of the humanitarian organization KIDS SAVE LIVES, trained to assist in emergencies as first respondents and to provide cardiopulmonary rejuvenation (CARP) met the prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, On Great Tuesday.
During the meeting, which was made at Maximus Palace, He was informed about the organization’s initiatives, which has trained 490,000 students since 2010, with a focus on the last grades of elementary and high school-high school, parents and teachers, covering about one in two schools in the territory.
Discussed the possibility of organizing courses
During the meeting it was discussed the opportunity to organize first aid and practical courses and practical courses CARP, 4 -hour time, in schools of all levels, through certified trainers, in the coming years. “What we do now fragments, let’s go see how we can do it organized,” the prime minister said. “These 4 hours of education give children a certification and the ability to have done something that ranks them in a different category if the non -born, need to be really useful.”
THE Kyriakos Mitsotakis congratulated the children and the organization KIDS SAVE LIVES γFor the training it offers to young people. “You will have our support and discuss with the Ministry of Education how we can institutionalize a more regular presence in the context of the discussion we have had, because for children it is double value: on the one hand we get more certified in the carp process, but on the other hand, I think we do. And our children must be familiar with not only this technique, but also with their obligation, if they need to endure, to help a fellow citizen, to be able to know how to do so, “the prime minister said.
“We know that every second emergency happens. Unfortunately, in no country in the world can we disintegrate ambulances to reach the first minute. So the World Health Organization comes and says: “Train the citizens, especially target children, schools. Create new CARP lessons so that from the age of 6 they can enter the world of volunteering, solidarity, first aid,” rescuer EKAB Anastasis Stefanakis. “Students are enthusiastic, they are easy to learn, the school is their physical space to learn first aid,” he added.
“We can save a life with a 4 -hour basic training”
Addressed to the organization’s trained children KIDS SAVE LIVES, the Kyriakos Mitsotakis He noted that “in our minds we can associate this process with someone who has a relationship with medicine, but we must explain in simple words that this can be learned. And indeed, it is unnecessary to be, but we can save a life with a 4 -hour basic training. To make a very big difference. Of course, the earlier you learn it, the better you will do it. I still remember the basics of a training I had done 30 years ago. And with a small reminder, everything comes back. “
The prime minister stood the possibility of teaching CPR and other phases of after school, such as the army or workplaces, so that there was wider coverage, and pointed out that such initiatives have a wider social footprint.
“I think it creates a culture of solidarity and a sense of social cohesion because, as you said, we can’t always have an ambulance next to us. We have done a significant job improvement of the response time of EKAB. It is certain and I know personally cases of people who have been saved by first supply aid-carrot, They would not live if they did not have this support at the time. And many times it can be an unknown one. We may do it to our relatives but it may be an unknown one who will save a life, because it has been found at that time to deal with an incident of a fellow citizen facing a serious health problem, “the prime minister said.
Demonstration of CPRA by Europe’s latest trainer
Kyriakos Mitsotakis had the opportunity to watch CPRA demonstration from Mary, her newer trainer in Europe, and be informed about the digital applications of the organization that has developed the National Defibrillator map.
The meeting also highlighted the large increase in the number of installed defibrillator In recent years, especially after the government’s decision to move to the over -VAT rate of 6% 3 years ago. “We have tried to put many more, but the point is to know how to use them,” the prime minister said.
Members of the Kids Save Lives organization thanked Kyriakos Mitsotakis for expanding his beneficiaries deafness allowance, so as not to exclude the age group 18-65.
