Islamabad : World Life Savers Day: BLS workshops will be held for the general public. Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) will organize Basic Life Support (BLS) workshops for the general public across the country on September 30 on the occasion of World Life Savers Day. The purpose of this day is to provide the common people with basic life support training so they can assist patients in critical medical emergencies, such as cardiac arrest and obstructed airways. PIMA has chosen around 120 mosques across the country for these workshops, where BLS training will be given to general people under the supervision of expert doctors.
PIMA Central President Dr. Abdul Aziz Memon said in his message that a large number of people suffered cardiac arrests at home or at workplace and lost their lives due to non-awareness of basic life support techniques. Many lives can be saved with Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training which is simple to learn. CPR is an emergency first-aid procedure that is applied to maintain respiration and blood circulation in a person, whose breathing and heartbeat suddenly stops.
He said that these lifesaving training programs were initiated on a large scale by British Islamic Medical Association in 2014; later on adopted by all doctors associations including PIMA, affiliated with the Federation of Islamic Medical Associations (FIMA). Last Saturday of the month of September is marked to hold life support sessions at mosques all over the world. This project is of utmost importance especially for third world and under developed countries like Pakistan where emergency services are nonexistent in far flung areas of the country.
