GEP Volume 10 Issue 21

JUNE 30-JULY 30, 2018 Volume 10 Issue 20
AGRICULTURE
Learn CPR... from front page
AEDs are now available in the local
market but they cost from P70,000 to
P270,000 each. The PHA is lobbying for
the passage of a law or an ordinance
requiring all business establishments
and public places to install these
emergency heart-reviving tools called
AEDs. “The AED Law will make the
AED affordable AEDs and as visible as
a fire extinguisher,” said Dr. Nannette
Rey, PHA incumbent president. Thirty
percent of the adult population die of
cardiovascular disease (CVD). In the US,
Japan and Singapore, AEDs are ubiquitous
tools you find on every corner
of the road. These countries have cut
their CV deaths because of AEDs. In
the Philippines, defibrillator machines
are commonly found in the hospitals.
Only a few government agencies
are equipped with AEDs. Even in big
establishments and offices, we rarely
see an AED. The PHA would love to
see the day these life-saving AEDs
are found everywhere. Every year, the
PHA conducts the Training the Trainors
which is participated in by PHA members,
physicians with different specialties
and nurses; hospital-based and
emergency medical providers.
For the past three decades, the
PHA has been conducting CPR trainings
for health professionals, emergency
medical technicians and other
field personnel around the country, to
be able to respond to emergency or do
first-aid. In 2015, the PHA launched the
CPR-ReadyPh.21 Campaign. Its goals
are: To bring CPR to every Filipino home.
To make every community/city CPR
Ready and To make the Philippines at
par with its Asian and Western allies
that have been CPR-Ready countries
for years.
In April 2016, it organized the first
simultaneous Mass CPR Training that
gathered 25,000 participants. Last year,
the 2nd Mass CPR Training drew 30,000
participants. The 3rd Nationwide Mass
CPR Training is slated for July 16, 2018
with the Department of Health (DOH) as
the implementing government agency.
The CPR on Wheels & Wings (CWW)
was created in September 2016 to
serve as the promo tool of the CPR-
ReadyPh.21 Campaign, with the Department
of Tourism as a pioneering partner.
So far, the CWW has been to 18
destinations and trained at least 80,000
people from all walks of life. Majority of
whom are barangay health workers,
government employees, tourism stakeholders
and hotel-resort-restaurant
front liners and workers. The PHA is
a member of the Singapore-based
Resuscitation Council of Asia.
CARSON, Calif., June 18, 2018 --- Thousands of residents from the City
of Carson and nearby areas in Southern California made their way to the
Veterans Park in Carson for the 120th Anniversary Celebration of Philippine
Independence.
It was a spectacular Saturday that started with the flag-raising, followed
by an ecumenical service led by Rev. Emmanuel Orendain, pastor of
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