Residents can learn how to save lives with free workshops run by Croydon Voluntary Action.
Anyone aged 10 and over will learn how to help someone who might be having a heart attack, perform CPR, deal with someone who is choking or has serious bleeding and asses an unconscious patient.
The workshops are sponsored by the British Heart Foundation and London Ambulance Service.
Henry Dom, an LAS training officer, said: "It’s really easy to learn how to save a life and it can make all the difference to someone’s chances of survival if they collapse and stop breathing.
“When a person suffers a cardiac arrest blood is no longer being pumped effectively around their body and oxygen is not reaching their brain. It’s vital that someone calls 999 for an ambulance and starts cardiopulmonary resuscitation straightaway.”
For more information contact Terence Doherty, Training Manager on 020 8253 1266 or email training@cvalive.org.uk
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