Overview

• About 2,500 people trained in first aid and CPR at the Monumento a la Revolución on September 18 during the earthquake commemoration.
• Organizers deployed 500 practice manikins and 214 instructors from the Cruz Roja, CRUM, ERUM, SGIRPC and the city health department.
• The government promoted the creation of a socorrista comunitario in neighborhoods and will ask the SEP to include risk management in school curricula.
• Officials reported 175,000 people trained so far in 2025 and the formation of 125 community first-response brigades.
• Authorities framed the session as preparation for today’s National Seismic Drill and stressed that rapid CPR skills can save lives in cardiac arrests.