🔴 Truth Drop

🔴 In India, fewer than 5% of people who suffer a heart attack in public survive.
In contrast, countries like the US and Japan record 45–60% survival rates — thanks to faster response and bystander CPR.
(Source: WHO Global Health Observatory 2023, AIIMS Cardiac Care Report 2024)


📖 Why This Matters

Every minute after a cardiac arrest, survival chances drop by 10% without CPR.
Yet in India, most people freeze, crowd, or record videos instead of helping.
Hospitals are minutes away, but help is needed right there, right now — in the street, the metro, the mall, the office.

This is where public preparedness decides between life and loss.


💥 Myth vs Fact

MythFact
“Heart attacks happen only to old people.”1 in 4 heart attack victims in India are below 40 (IJSR 2024).
“Someone else will help.”90% of cardiac arrests happen in front of bystanders who don’t act.
“Ambulance will come in time.”Average urban response = 18–25 minutes, rural = 45+ minutes — far beyond the Golden 10.

📊 Data Snapshot: India vs World

CountryPublic Place Survival RateCPR Awareness in PopulationAvg Ambulance TimeAED Availability in Public Spaces
🇮🇳 India<5%2–3%18–45 minsRare / None
🇺🇸 USA55–60%70%8–10 minsWidely available
🇯🇵 Japan50%+75%7–9 minsAvailable at all train stations
🇸🇪 Sweden70%80%6–8 minsPublic access in all schools/offices
🇸🇬 Singapore65%72%9–11 minsMandated in all malls & airports

👉 India’s survival rate is 10x lower than global benchmarks — not due to lack of technology, but due to lack of training and awareness.


🧰 What You Can Do Today

🫀 Learn CPR — it takes 5 minutes to learn, saves a lifetime of regret.
📞 Call 108 / 112 immediately — don’t wait to confirm.
Use AED (Defibrillator) if available — follow voice prompts.
🚶 Clear crowd, open airways, start compressions.
🏫 Ask your office/mall/society if they have AEDs or trained staff.
📲 Share this blog — one click could save someone’s tomorrow.


📈 Visual / Infographic Idea

Bar Graph Title: Public Survival Rate in Cardiac Arrest (2024)

  • X-axis: India, USA, Japan, Sweden, Singapore
  • Y-axis: % Survival (0–70%)
    India bar drastically shorter (<5%) — highlighted in red, others in green/blue — to visually convey the gap.

📎 Reference / Source Links

  • World Health Organization – Global Health Observatory, 2023
  • AIIMS Cardiac Emergency Care Annual Report, 2024
  • Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Cardiac Arrest Study, 2023
  • American Heart Association CPR Statistics, 2022
  • Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC) Data, 2023

📣 Call to Action

🚨 Tag your workplace, school, or mall — ask:
“Do we have an AED and CPR-trained staff?”
If not, start the change.

Because awareness before ambulance saves lives.


🔚 Closing Line

A heart stops — not because of time, but because no one acted in time.
This is why we built HowToSurvive.in — to turn bystanders into lifesavers, and every citizen into a responder.

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