Shanghai launches "World First Aid Day" theme event, focusing on first aid skills training for new employment groups

China News Service, Shanghai, September 12 (Reporter Chen Jing) Today is the 27th "World First Aid Day". On the 12th, a publicity event with the theme of "World First Aid Day" was held in Shanghai.

The highlight of this event is the focus on new employment groups. In recent years, new employment groups such as couriers, takeaway riders, and online ride-hailing drivers have grown increasingly. They shuttle through the streets and alleys of the city and are indispensable "capillaries" for the city's operation. However, they also face risks such as traffic safety and accidental injuries at work. Allowing them to master emergency first aid skills not only protects their own safety, but also adds a mobile line of defense to the city.

The "First Aid·Focus on New Employment Groups" initiative was launched at the event, including popularizing emergency first aid skills and helping new employment groups build urban safety and resilience; the Hongkou District's "Hongai Escort" first aid popularization project was officially launched. The project will rely on 8 sub-district service stations for new employment groups in the district, integrate district resources, build a positional, normalized and sustainable emergency first aid service system, and establish a long-term service mechanism of "material support + training empowerment + free medical services + characteristic extension".

Li Jiangying, Party Secretary and Executive Vice President of the Shanghai Red Cross Society, said that a warm and safe people's city must not only have a complete medical professional first aid system, but also a social atmosphere in which "everyone wants to save, everyone dares to save, and everyone knows how to save." He called on more enterprises and social organizations to actively participate, focus on the needs of new employment groups, carry out regular first aid popularization and empowerment, and jointly protect the lives and health of workers in new industries.

It is reported that from 2024 to 2026, Shanghai's practical project for the private sector "Training 80,000 Certified Emergency Paramedics" has trained a total of more than 300,000 certified emergency paramedics, covering various fields such as communities, schools, and enterprises, and a group of heroes have emerged to save lives in critical moments.

On that day, the first batch of five Red Cross emergency first aid training E stations started trial operation, located at East China University of Political Science and Law, Pudong Lingang Experimental School of the Second Affiliated Middle School of East China Normal University, Beibund Street in Hongkou District, Pengpu Xincun Street in Jing'an District, and Zhoujiaqiao Street in Changning District.