First-aid demand up after hot-dog death

P(ANSA) – Rome, April 15 – Demand for first-aid courses has soared across Italy after a three-year-old boy choked to death on a hot dog at a restaurant in an Ikea store in Rome last month, experts in the Italian capital said Tuesday.BR”Parents, grandparents and primary-school teachers are queuing up even though we’ve doubled the number of courses,” said the head of Italy’s commission on anti-suffocation techniques, Jacopo Pagani.BRAfter the first national ‘day of information’ on what to do in the event of someone choking, at the end of last month, Pagani said “we were inundated with up to 8,000 emails a day.BR”It was total chaos, our email account got blocked,” he said.BR”During the information day, when we hit the streets, shops, malls and piazzas, we had 5,000 contacts, setting the ball rolling”.BRThe Italian Red Cross (CRI) will be setting up information points across Italy next month, especially in places where kids gather like malls and squares.BRLife-saving techniques like the Heimlich Maneuver are not currently taught in Italian schools, or even privately.BRThe CRI is “determined to make that ignorance a thing of the past,” Pagani said.BRThe boy, Francesco, died in a Rome hospital on March 17 after fighting for his life for five days.BR/P
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