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With such cases expected to continue rising, the foundation is targeting to reach 1 million trained community first responders over the next five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you train a million, that means almost every household or every other household will have one person trained in CPR,\u201d said SHF CEO Geoffrey Ong.<\/p>\n
Currently, there are about 270,000 trained community first responders registered on myResponder, a Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) app which alerts members of the public to nearby fire and medical emergencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To reach its target, SHF plans to train 170,000 students in institutions of higher learning, and is working with the Ministry of Education to equip another 300,000 teenagers with CPR skills within the five-year time frame.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So far this year, the foundation has trained about 4,500 people and hopes to more than double that to 10,000 by the end of 2026. In October, it will hold a free mass CPR training event named Project Heart, with the aim of training 1,000 people in a single day.<\/p>\n
The organisation also plans to partner with skills training providers to roll out training programmes for the public, as well as with corporations to equip more employees at workplaces.<\/p>\n
Additionally, it has been growing its pool of instructors by training aspiring healthcare professionals, including paramedic and nursing students\u00a0who are already certified in CPR\u00a0and automated external defibrillator (AED) skills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Among the most active community first responders is 15-year-old Joshua Hiew, who learned CPR and AED skills in 2024 and has since responded to more than 50 cardiac emergencies on the myResponder app.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI have a bike that I use when responding to cardiac emergencies, equipped with life-saving tools and strobe lights to alert pedestrians to give way,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Recalling a recent cardiac arrest case, Joshua said he had to put his nerves aside to focus on helping the victim.<\/p>\n \u201cI felt nervous, but I had to remain calm. I tried my best and we gave the victim as much chance of survival as possible,\u201d he told CNA.<\/p>\n \u201cIf no one did anything, the person will pass away.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n With such cases expected to continue rising, the foundation is targeting to reach 1 million trained community first responders over the next five years.\u00a0 \u201cIf…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}BEING THE FIRST TO RESPOND<\/h2>\n
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