Would you know what to do if someone was having a heart attack ? Tim Connor did, which is why his colleague Tony Wong is still alive and well today. Tim works for a tea company in Hampshire along with around 80 other people. One day, Tim was sitting in his office when he was asked to check...
Kampala, Uganda Around 1:40am on April 6th, Richard Kabunga was walking home from a friend’s housewarming party when he found a man lying unconscious outside a bar in his neighbourhood. “He had been left for dead by the roadside,” Kabunga says. “It was raining...
Walking the talk In February, in Singapore, prior to the commencement of the Red Cross Youth’s First Aid Gold Modular Workshop at Compassvale Secondary School Youth Volunteer Instructors Low Yu Ping and Tracy Koh received a notification on Singapore Civil Defence Force’s “My...
Putting newly learned first aid skills into practice When Priya Choudhary first attended the first aid lesson with the Singapore Red Cross, she had no idea that she would be putting her CPR skills into practice the very next day. Call it fate or coincidence if you will, but it actually...
“The first aid training saved her life” Each year, the Danish Red Cross trains more than 60,000 people in first aid. Victoria was lucky that her childminder had learned how to give first aid. Not all accident victims are so lucky. First aid can save life. Photo: Danish Red Cross If...