India has the lowest percentage of bystander’s CPR in the world, at around 2-4%. This gap directly contributes to our poor Out-of-Hospital Cardiac arrest survival rates. Just 30 minutes of CPR training can prepare a person to step in when someone collapses and stops breathing
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