Drôme middle school students trained in life-saving actions

Handling a defibrillator, performing a cardiac massage: these are all actions that can save lives and which are taught to 4th grade students in Drôme. An initiative of the Drôme Departmental Council.

4,000 students trained in 2024-2025

This educational action is offered to all public and private Drôme establishments. This year, 29 out of 52 colleges volunteered to take this training. The department signed a contract with the company “D’un single gesture”, based in Rovaltain and created in 2018. This company markets a solution using virtual reality and firefighters from the Departmental Union of Firefighters are present at each training. The educational action lasts 1h30 as a whole class with thirty first aid mannequins and thirty virtual reality headsets. The students follow 40 minutes of immersion practice, 40 minutes of discussion with the trainers, then 10 minutes of presentation of the young firefighters' systems with the broadcast of a video produced by the Departmental Youth Council.

Only 20% of French people trained in lifesaving actions

In terms of first aid, France is far behind its European neighbors. Only 20% of the population is trained in first aid against 80% in Germanyin Switzerland or even in Austria, 95% in Norway. In France, 50 thousand people make a cardiac arrest every year and the survival rate is 5%in Norway it is 40%. The company “With a single gesture” has already trained 20,000 people in three years, particularly in businesses.