Time Out Bangaluru Magazine: Health and Fitness: Heart catalogue
A group of Bangaloreans wants to make the city the Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation capital of India, finds Arati Rao.
Franklin Joseph, who conducts Franklin Joseph Krav Maga Bangalore classes in Richmond Town, offered a different perspective. He usually delivea five minute talk on how to deal with bullet wounds and shrapnel gashes, and also attempts to include a session by a doctor every two-three months. "Today, the war isn't happening on the borders. If a car bomb goes off at a mall and your family's injured, what do you do?" he asked. All of it may be rather grim talk for a city in which a pint is considered more a measure of beer than of blood, but, as Chatterjee said, "Everyone must know what to do in an emergency." (more…)