The St John Ambulance, Accountant General, Odisha observed the ‘Restart A heart Day’ in the AG Office premises here on Wednesday under the guidance of Principal Accountant General Madhulita Basu.
The ‘Restart A Heart’ programme is a international initiative to raise awareness about sudden cardiac arrest and importance of cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation in life threatening cardiac arrest cases.
It was revealed that 6 million sudden deaths occur in the world every year. Survival chances are less than one per cent worldwide and five percent in the USA.
Whopping 90 per cent of people experience sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) outside of hospitals. While 69 per cent SCA occurs in home/residence, 20 per cent happens in public/work places and the rest 10 per cent in hospitals.
About 45 per cent of outside cardiac arrest victims outside hospital survived when a bystander administered CPR (cardio pulmonary resuscitation).
While 18 per cent of world population lives in India, it is estimated that India has 60 per cent of the world’s heart disease burden due to modern life style, lack of physical activity, genetic predisposition and unhealthy dietary habits.
Death due to cardio vascular disease rose 1.3 million to 2.8 million in 2016. India has 30 million heart patients now and about 1.7 million Indian's heart stops beating every year.
Sudden cardiac arrest death is very high in India compared to the developed countries. The rate is 4,280 per one lakh population in India compared to 60-151 in developed countries.
People in the age group of 18-72 years lost their lives giving a bad impact on the Indian economy.
It is estimated that one-third of death of all deaths in the country by 2020 will happen due to stop of heart beating.
About 9,000 sudden cardiac arrest victims lost their lives in Odisha annually as per Registration General of India sources.
Mayurbhnja district has the highest mortality rate 25 per cent followed by Balangir, Nawarangapur, Jagatsinghpur and Nayagarh.
Heart related death is the 2nd largest death in india compared to old age death (36.5 per cent).
While 98 per cent of Indians do not know about CPR, 85 people in Japang, is 78 per cent in the USA and 56 per cent 8in Srilanka knows CPR.
Without CPR every minute counts and every minute lost reduces the chances of survavival by eight per cent to 10 per cent.
After 3 minute of Sudden Cardiac arrest the brain cell became dead 32,000 per second. Within 8 to 10 minute of Cardiac arrest ( Heart beat stop), brain will be dead and no one can save the victims.
In India, it usually takes minimum 30 minute for arrival of ambulance or medical facility available.
Early CPR can increase double or triple chance of survival.
The AG office informed that it has taken an initiative to train 2 lakh school and college students, police, paramedical staffs, doctors, fire and general people on cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) /AED in free of cost in all district of Odisha to reduce cardiac arrest mortality.
“Last month, we have already trained 5,000 school students and teachers in districts of Khordha. Bhadrak and Jajpur. Recently, 2500 IIT students and 20, 000 KISS students have been enrolled for trainin in CPR,” informed an official release.
CPR should be included in school syllabus and law to make CPR training compulsory in schools and work places, viewed many.