Quebec wants all schools equipped with a defibrillator by next summer

The Quebec government is asking school service centres and school boards to ensure all schools are equipped with an automated external defibrillator over the course of the next academic year.Posted: Jun 04, 2024 11:35 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

Education Minister Bernard Drainville says an audit will be carried out to ensure they are installed. "One evening, you might have a group of adults playing badminton or ball hockey, and then at some point, one of them goes into cardiac arrest. We want to be able to save them," he said.According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, more than 60,000 cardiac arrests occur each year outside hospitals across the country. That's one cardiac arrest every nine minutes. The survival rate is less than 10 per cent.

"If you train people in Grade 5 and they're recertified in Grade 9, that means you've got a whole generation of citizens trained twice in their lives," he said.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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