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17/04/2025 | 19:23
PM Mitsotakis meets with children and members of KIDS SAVE LIVES
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had a meeting with members of the humanitarian organisation KIDS SAVE LIVES and children who have been trained to assist in emergencies as first responders and provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), according to an announcement on Thursday.
Since 2010, the organisation has trained 490 thousand school children, with a focus on the final years of elementary and middle school, as well as parents and teachers, covering about one in two schools in the country.
In the context of the meeting, held on Tuesday at the Maximos Mansion, the possibility was discussed of organising theoretical and practical first aid and CPR courses over the coming years for schools of all levels, of a 4-hour duration with certified instructors. “Let’s look at how we can do this in an organised way,” the prime minister said, “so that these four hours of training give children a certificate and the capability that they have done something which, in the unfortunate case that it’s needed, puts them in a different category and enables them to be truly useful.”
Mitsotakis congratulated the children and the KIDS SAVE LIVES organisation for the training it offers to young people. “You will have our support and we will discuss with the Ministry of Education how we can institutionalise your more regular presence, in the context of the discussion we had, because for the children it has a double value: on the one hand we get more people certified in the CPR process, but on the other hand I think that the children also acquire a different sense of solidarity, which we need above all. And we need our children to be familiar, not only with this technique but also with their obligation, if they need to go to help a fellow citizen, to be able and know how to do it,” the prime minister stressed.
Source: ANA – MPA
