For four years, Groupama has been offering free first aid training in all French regions. The objective, in Indre, is to train fifty people in 2024.
According to the French Red Cross, only 40% of French people are trained in first aid procedures. In 2018, the President of the Republic set the objective of 80% of the population trained in life-saving actions.
A status of “citizen rescuer”
This status was established by the law of July 3, 2020 and designates “any person providing voluntary assistance to a person in an apparent situation of serious and imminent danger”. To obtain this status, you must have completed a certification training to first aid procedures. We learn, for example, how to raise the alarm, do a cardiac massage, put a person in PLS (Lateral Safety Position) and how to react properly to a burn.
Fifty people trained in Indre in 2024
This is the objective that Groupama has set itself. For four years, the company has been offering free training in life-saving actions. In Indre, 500 people have already been trained by Groupama, in partnership with UDSP 36 (Departmental Union of Indre Firefighters). Pauline Bourvis, communications manager for Groupama Centre-Atlantiquespecifies “the training is open (to all) from ten years old because at ten years old, we estimate that they are completely capable of understanding first aid gestures”.
The next training, in Indre, will take place on Saturday December 7, 2024, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., in Argenton-sur-Creuse. To register, go to the website of Groupama.
