CPR-ready Region 4: PHA Southern Tagalog’s top priority to boost local tourism

THE Philippine Heart Association (PHA) Southern Tagalog Chapter (STC) formally inducted its new set of officers 2025 to 2027 and new members in a ceremonial event that underscored the chapter’s renewed commitment to advancing cardiovascular health training and care, cardiac emergency preparedness, and awareness among the public across the region.

The ceremony highlighted the STC’s priority projects for 2025 to 2027, led by the region-wide free Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training advocacy in barangays (villages), towns and cities toward a CPR-Ready Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon)-Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, and Palawan).

This initiative aligns with the national PHA-led CPR-Ready PH campaign, which seeks to bring CPR and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) in every Filipino home and city to put the Philippines on the CPR-Ready country map; and revive the CPR on Wheels & Wings (CWW), a joint advocacy partnership between the PHA and the Department of Tourism from 2016 to 2020.

The CWW caravan conducted free hands-only CPR in top 25 tourist destinations, teaching and empowering tourism/travel and hotel-resort industry workers with life-saving skills. CWW was abruptly bumped off by Covid-19 in March 2020 with Pilar, Bataan as the last hop.