My family and I went to a restaurant to have food. My one-year-old daughter ate a big piece accidentally, and it got stuck in her throat. She was tearing up from the pain. She raised her hand to call for attention and her breathing was blocked. I lifted her up and placed her in infant choking method upside down.

I am Pakathan speaking. I thank ALERT organisation and team ALERT for giving me opportunity to learn first aid. There was a circumstance recently where I applied what I was taught in the training programme. When having non-vegetarian curry food in the afternoon, my father choked on the food that got stuck in the airway and had difficulty breathing.

The first accident case, I attended, was a girl who had fainted and had gone unconscious. After I got near the victim in college, I checked for her response. When she didn’t respond to me, I proceeded to check her vitals. The vitals were normal so I put her in the Recovery Position. About 20 minutes later, she regained consciousness, felt normal and spoke with me.

26-year-old Lalitha Veronica saved the life of a person who suffered a heart attack by performing three cycles of CPR. When many people avoided the unconscious victim, she was reminded of her father who had also experienced a heart attack and thereby, she stopped to give first aid without inhibition.

Once, 23-year-old youngster Dhanush tried and couldn’t save the life of a victim. After some time, he once again witnesses a road accident and this time, saves the life of a 60-year-old man by performing First Aid during the Golden Hour of life and death.

On 15th May around 8 to 8.30 PM when I was returning from office near Perungudi Bus stand I saw a crowd of people in the road side. I immediately stopped my vehicle and reached the spot and found a mid aged women met with accident and lying on the road.

On June 20, 2023, during my visit to Mt.Titlis, Switzerland, I was walking on a heavy iron hanging bridge on the top of the mountain at 10,000 feet. Midway through the bridge, I saw some heavy blood stains on the steel rods. Just about a 100 mts away, I could see a young Chinese lady who seemed to be a bit mentally challenged, bleeding profusely from her knees and with some bruises on both her palms.

I was on my way in cab to office in the morning of February 1, when I came across an accident. In the remote roadway of Chik Thirupati, Malur road, Karnataka, two boys, both not older than 25 years, had met with a bike accident from driving rashly.