Kent man who had life saved by SECAMB calls for more people to learn CPR
Chris Mills, who is 77 years old, collapsed whilst walking to the shops - with bystanders including an off-duty nurse rushing to his aid before the ambulance arrived.
A Kent man who had his life saved by SECAMB after suffering a cardiac arrest is calling for more people to learn CPR.
Chris Mills, who is 77 years old, collapsed whilst walking to the shops - with bystanders including an off-duty nurse rushing to his aid before the ambulance arrived.
Chris told us that he's thankful to the ambulance service - and the people around that helped him, he said: I'm so grateful that all those people were around to help me, including the bystanders and then the ambulance came so fast and then they of course carried on looking after to me till I got to A&E and then into intensive care.
"And anybody who can learn CPR should do it because if those people hadn't of done CPR on me prior to the ambulance arriving I'm not too sure what the out come would have been."
It comes after it was revealed that Kent's ambulance services had recorded the highest survival of cardiac arrests in the country.
SECAMB attended just over nine thousand cardiac arrests between 2023 and 2024, saving more than three hundred lives - which is a survival rate of eleven and a half percent.