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The American Heart Association and AIIMS launched a train-the-trainer initiative across India, successfully training over 113,000 people in Hands-Only CPR to improve bystander response rates.
Source: American Heart Association InternationalA nationwide campaign from April 2024 to January 2025 collected 25,302 pledges to learn CPR across India, earning a place in the Worldwide Book of Records.
Source: Worldwide Book of RecordsResearch from rural Bangalore found that most adults have inadequate CPR understanding, reinforcing the urgent need for community-level training programs like HarHaathCPR.
Source: PMC / National Library of MedicineOnly 2% of Indian adults are trained in CPR. With cardiac arrests claiming over 10 lakh lives annually, urgent nationwide CPR education is critical to saving lives.
Source: CPR Training Launch, India — World Heart DayThe IRC guidelines emphasize chest-compression-only CPR as a practical approach for Indian bystanders, given limited AED access in most areas of the country.
Source: Indian Journal of Anaesthesia / PMCOver five years, the AHA and AIIMS partnership will scale Hands-Only CPR training to 12 medical institutes nationwide using a sustainable train-the-trainer model.
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