With an aim to reduce loss of lives due to cardiac arrests, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched a statewide CPR training program and an automated external defibrillator (AED) demonstration at the Kalinga Stadium in the state's capital, Bhubaneswar.
The ‘Saving Lives with Bystander CPR’ project was initiated by Dr Vemuri S Murthy, an Indo-US resuscitation expert and an adjunct faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
