B.C. government considering making CPR training mandatory in high schools

The B.C. government says it's working on making CPR training mandatory for high school students. This follows an incident where a university student overdosed. As Kylie Stanton tells us, experts believe early training could improve student safety.

McIntrye said her daughter’s death was preventable and believes CPR and naloxone training should be standard in high schools and that easy-to-use naloxone should be widely available to avoid similar tragedies.Story continues below advertisement “I think that anytime that we advocate for CPR in the public sense, whether that’s in schools or our workplaces or our communities, we’re making our communities much safer,” Lyle Karasiuk chair of the Canadian Red Cross First Aid Education told Global News.In a previous statement, B.C.’s Minister of Health and Addictions said the province is working on adding mandatory CPR training in high schools and purchasing nasal naloxone in larger quantities.

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