Only 2% of adults in India know how to perform CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The American Heart Association – the world’s leading voluntary health organization devoted to longer, healthier, live for all – and the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) – a group of autonomous government public medical universities– are working together to train more than 150,000 students, community health care workers and others in the public in multiple states within India to reverse this trend.
CPR training spans across India in advance of the World Restart a Heart Day
Only 2% of adults in India know how to perform CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The American Heart Association - the world's leading voluntary health organization devoted to longer, healthier, live for all - and the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) - a group of autonomous government public medical universities– are working together to train more than 150,000 students, community health care workers and others in the public in multiple states within India to reverse this trend.