Project Heart 2021 Virtual

Project Heart marked its decade-long efforts on 17 Oct 2021 with a virtual mass CPR+AED training for members of the public and an announcement to extend CPR+AED training to migrant workers in our community.

In his opening address, our Guest of Honour Dr Koh Poh Koon, Senior Minister of State for Health and Manpower, shared details to the new Project First-Responder programme – a collaboration between MOM and CPR+AED training providers like Singapore Heart Foundation to equip 2,000 migrant workers, dorm operators and frontline officers with essential CPR+AED skills to build resuscitation readiness and capabilities in dormitories.

Do you know how does gasping look like? What should you do when you see someone gasping?

Gasping is also known as agonal breathing, a symptom of a severe medical emergency like cardiac arrest. Based on the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Survey 2020 on CPR+AED, 52% of the respondents are unsure if they should start CPR when they encounter someone gasping.

Following the theme “Spot A Gasp, Stop A Death”, we invited Prof Lim Swee Han, Chairman of the Singapore Resuscitation and First Aid Council, and Mr Chu Tommy, a CPR+AED Instructor and a community first responder, to a lively discussion on agonal breathing or gasping.