A one-day training on hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) equipped 3,000 students at the University of Antique (UA) with response capability in times of emergency.

UA collaborated with the Department of Health-Center for Health Development Western Visayas (DOH-CHD WV) for the training on Wednesday.

“Trained students would now be our first responders to emergencies,” said Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer Broderick Train in an interview Thursday.

He added that students manifested their love for humanity by bearing with the intense heat of the sun to learn the CPR technique.

DOH Antique provincial director Rommel Garganera, who supervised the one-day training, said UA made a significant accomplishment by training 3,000 students in just one day.

Before Antique, the province of Negros Occidental registered the highest number of individuals who trained in CPR, with 2,600 trainees, but on a cumulative basis in 2019.

In his message during the training,UA Dr. Pablo Crespo said they held the initiative aligned with their new vision to become a premier university in transforming lives and developing sustainable and resilient communities.

“There are still 22,000 more students needed to be trained on CPR and other techniques on emergency response,” he said. (PNA)