Public encouraged to learn CPR skills as part of World Restart a Heart Day

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Wednesday, 16 October 2019 08:34

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People across Northern Ireland are being encouraged to learn life-saving CPR skills as part of World Restart a Heart Day.

Every year more than 1,500 people here suffer from a heart attack away from hospital.

Fewer than 10% of them survive.

Today the Department of Health will be in some local schools teaching pupils what to do when someone suffers a cardiac arrest.

Professor Charlotte McArdle is Northern Ireland's Chief Nursing Officer:

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