Two organizers named Aryan Sekhavati and Ashkon Pourheidary offered a free workshop on first aid and CPR after an incident that happened in Toronto.
After losing a close friend in the tragic van attack, Sekhavati and Pourheidary want to do something that they could help the people in the community affected by the incident. The incident happened in North York.
Importance of CPR training
In the area where the incident happened, these two people set up a station and offered free CPR and first aid workshops in Mel Lastman Square. According to Sekhavati and Pourheidary they want to make people in the community aware that these courses are available. They are instructors in first aid and CPR courses.
According to Sekhavati and Pourheidary, the workshop will teach people how to respond to an emergency and hopes it will break the bystander effect where they are hesitant to help by providing initial first aid and CPR when there are others around. They do not know who will call the emergency numbers, in the end, no one calls.
The workshop will help people gain self-confidence in responding to emergency situations that can happen in front of them.
The workshop has six stations. One station will be looking at recognizing an emergency; bleeding stations; CPR stations; AED stations and stations for managing minor bleeding, puncture wounds, and amputations. There is also a station on heart attack, stroke, and choking.
According to a witness, Roxana Ramzi, she was at the workshop and appreciated it that it was close to the area where the incident happened. You see people getting attacked and it is very important for everybody in this community to know how to respond to emergency and provide first aid and CPR.
A man named Alek Minassian, in his 20’s is charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder. He was driving a rented white van and hit pedestrians as it sped along a busy sidewalk on Yonge Street toward Sheppard Avenue.
There were eight women and two men with ages ranging from 22 to 92 who died in the incident. There were 5 people injured. Some bystanders provided first aid and CPR on these injured people and immediately brought to the hospital.
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