Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met on Holy Tuesday at the Maximus Palace with children and members of the humanitarian organization Kids Save Lives, who have been trained to assist in emergencies as first respondents and providing cardiopulmonary rejuvenation (KARPA).

The prime minister was briefed on the organization’s initiatives, which has trained 490,000 students since 2010, with a focus on the latest grades of elementary and high school-high school, parents and teachers, covering about one in two schools in the territory.

During the meeting it was discussed the opportunity to organize theoretical and practical first aid courses and CPR, 4 -hour, in schools of all levels, through certified trainers, in the coming years. “What we do now fragments, let’s go see how we can do it organized,” the prime minister said. “These 4 hours of education give children a certification and the ability to have done something that ranks them in a different category if the non -born, need to be really useful.”

Kyriakos Mitsotakis congratulated the children and the Kids Save Lives organization for the education he offers at young age. “You will have our support and discuss with the Ministry of Education how we can institutionalize a more regular presence in the context of the discussion we have had, because for children it is double value: on the one hand we get more certified in the carp process, but on the other hand, I think we do. And our children must be familiar with not only this technique, but also with their obligation, if they need to endure, to help a fellow citizen, to be able to know how to do so, “the prime minister said.

“We know that every second emergency happens. Unfortunately, in no country in the world can we disintegrate ambulances to reach the first minute. So the World Health Organization comes and says: “Train the citizens, especially target children, schools. Create new CARP lessons so that from the age of 6 they can enter the world of volunteering, solidarity, first aid,” Rescuer of EKAB Anastasis Stefanakis. “Students are enthusiastic, they are easy to learn, the school is their physical space to learn first aid,” he added.

Addressing the educated children of Kids Save Lives, Kyriakos Mitsotakis noted that “in our minds we can connect this process to someone who has a relationship with medicine, but we must explain in simple words that this can be learned. And indeed, it is unnecessary to be, but we can save a life with a 4 -hour basic training. To make a very big difference. Of course, the earlier you learn it, the better you will do it. I still remember the basics of a training I had done 30 years ago. And with a small reminder, everything comes back. “

The prime minister stood the possibility of teaching CPR and other phases of after school, such as the army or workplaces, so that there was wider coverage, and pointed out that such initiatives have a wider social footprint.

“I think it creates a culture of solidarity and a sense of social cohesion because, as you said, we can’t always have an ambulance next to us. We have done a significant job to improve the response time of EKAB. It is certain and I know personal cases of people who have been saved from the first aid-carrier who would not live if they did not have that support at the time. And many times it can be an unknown one. We may do it to our relatives but it may be an unknown one who will save a life, because it has been found at that time to deal with an incident of a fellow citizen facing a serious health problem, “the prime minister said.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis had the opportunity to attend a Demonstration of MARPA from Maria, the youngest trainer in Europe, and to be informed about the digital applications of the organization he has developed and the National Defibrillator Charter.

The meeting has also emerged a large increase in the number of installed defibrillators in recent years, especially after the government’s decision to move to the over -over VAT rate of 6% 3 years ago. “We have tried to put many more, but the point is to know how to use them,” the prime minister said.

Members of the Kids Save Lives organization thanked Kyriakos Mitsotakis for expanding the beneficiaries of the deafness allowance, so that the age group is not excluded.