Reaching out to save lives

First aid: Dr Lawrence Tan briefing hikers on CPR at level five rest station. The Star/Suthakar/ 28 Jan 2014

HIKERS responded enthusiastically when a group from St John Ambulance taught them cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at two hiking rest stations near the Penang Municipal Park in Penang.

The CPR demonstration was held following the death of hiker K. Subramaniam, 59, who collapsed and died while hiking there.