Community first responders lauded at appreciation event

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It was drizzling on Labour Day morning in 2017 when Mr Desmond Woo received a notification from the myResponder App alerting him to an 83-year-old man having a heart attack in a nearby Housing Board block. The 32-year-old jumped out of bed, rushed to the man's home and...

Currently, responders in the network are alerted to nearby cases of suspected cardiac arrest and small fires on the app that they can choose to attend to.

Together with SCDF's myResponder initiative, which was launched earlier in 2015, the joint pool of responders has responded to 62,000 activations and saved more than 30 lives.SCDF Community First Responders and community partners were also lauded at the event. Speaking as the guest of honour at the event, Minister of State for Home Affairs as well as Sustainability and the Environment Desmond Tan, stressed the importance of the role that responders play.

On the expansion of the network, Mr Tan said:"These are roles that anyone can undertake. We hope that the broadening of the scope of SGSecure Responders will allow more people to join the network - in particular, those who may not yet have the confidence to perform CPR or AED or to put out fires in our neighbourhoods."

 

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