School students learn CPR on Restart a Heart Day

Students were taught CPR using training dummies with female anatomy

Students in East Yorkshire schools are being taught to administer life-saving techniques to people who have had a cardiac arrest.

Paramedics from Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) are training pupils in CPR and how to use a defibrillator as part of the annual Restart a Heart Day.

Female figures are being used as YAS said research showed that "a third of the British public are afraid to give CPR to a woman because they are worried about touching breasts".

Thomas from Northcott School in Hull said learning the skill was "really important".

"If someone's in your city and you could be saving a life," he said.

"Which is just extraordinary for you."

YAS said that more than 30,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest outside of hospital, each year in the UK with fewer than one in ten surviving.

Sasha Bipin from YAS said learning CPR was a "vital skill".

"You just never know when you might need it," she said

"It could be a loved one, it could be someone that you just come across on the street."

She added: "So the more that we can raise awareness amongst young people, the better [chance] really that we have of saving someone's life."

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