2ND MASS CPR DRIVE SET IN CEBU TODAY
Event venues are in Cebu Coliseum, Cebu City and Mendero Medical Center in Consolacion. It is open to the public. Philippine Heart Association aims to share to the community the knowledge and skills of saving a life through CPR.
The Philippine Heart Association (PHA) Inc. with its Council on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, in cooperation with the local arm-the Philippine Heart Association Cebu Chapter, will hold its 2nd Mass CPR today, March 6, at the Cebu Coliseum and in Mendero Medical Center in Consolacion town, Cebu.
This will be a simultaneous nationwide event in strategic locations in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. The PHA, which is the country’s leader in cardiovascular care, is on its way toward its vision of creating a CPR-ready Philippines by 2020.
It began its journey with the first mass CPR campaign on April of 2016 that gathered 22,000 individuals all over the country.
This was way higher than its Asian counterparts’ Malaysia and Singapore, which gathered 6,000 and 1,000 participants, respectively in 2015.
Its advocacy was further strengthened by the approval of the “Samboy Lim Bill” into a law, Republic Act 10871, or the Basic Life Support Training in Schools Act, last July 2016.
Under Section 3 (Support for Basic Education Students) of RA 10871, mandates “all public and private basic education schools operating nationwide to provide their students with basic life support training through the use of psychomotor training in an age-appropriate manner.”
More than the numbers, PHA aims to extend to the lay community the knowledge and skills of saving a life through CPR.
Sudden cardiac death (SCD), predominantly from heart disease, is prevalent in the country. And it can strike anytime, to any- one at any place, whether it be at home with a loved one, in school or in the workplace.
This event is for free and is open to everyone from all ages. Anyone can always learn CPR as easy as ABCs.
Interested parties may go directly to the designated sites at the Cebu Coliseum and Mendero Medical Center for 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
This project was organized with the support of the association’s media partners, advocacy partners and the current leadership of the PHA, namely, Dr. Francisco Chio, president of the PHA Cebu Chapter; Dr. Barbie Destajo, CPR chair of PHA Cebu; Dr. Francis Lavapie, PHA Council chair for CPR; Dr. Alex Junia from Cebu who is the immediate past president of the PHA and Dr. Raul Lapitan, the incumbent PHA president.