Leeds Schools Urged to Sign up to Restart a Heart Day
Secondary schools across Leeds are being urged to sign up to this year’s Restart a Heart Day.
The event sees medical staff teach pupils CPR.
11,000 young people benefitted from the course last year, and Neil Marsy from Yorkshire Ambulance Service hopes they can build on that this year.
“Being able to catch young people all in one place at one time is brilliant and it’s something that stays with them for a long time in the future,” he says.
“If that memory jogs them to react and to push hard and fast when someone’s heart has stopped beating, we’ve got a really good chance of improving the number of patients who recover from cardiac arrests in West Yorkshire.
“I’m not a paramedic but, using basic techniques, I’ve saved somebody’s life with CPR twice now.”
An impressive 51 of the county’s secondary schools enrolled in the event last year.
The charity’s ambition is to create a ‘Nation of Lifesavers’ in which all children leave school with the skills to save a life in an emergency.