The GRC special award goes to the student project group "First Aid For All".
Students at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) have been honoured for their commitment to teaching resuscitation to schoolchildren. The German Resuscitation Council (German Resuscitation Council, GRC) presented the GRC Action Prize to the student project group "First Aid For All" in Cologne on 20 September 2024. It is considered the most important resuscitation prize in Germany.
The student organisation team of the "First Aid For All" project group, Marei Nitschke, Mari Teuter and Lena Feist, accepted the award on behalf of the now 80 active students at MHH in recognition of their voluntary work. Together, they have already trained 4,200 children and young people at over 15 schools in the Hannover region to become first aiders over the past two and a half years. In addition, they are campaigning for resuscitation training to be introduced as a fixed part of the curriculum in schools in Lower Saxony from year seven onwards.
MHH paediatric intensive care physician Dr Michael Sasse and MHH anaesthetist PD Dr Hendrik Eismann support the students in their activities. "I am very pleased that the students' great voluntary commitment is being recognised and honoured with this prestigious award," says Dr Sasse, who has been supervising and training the project group from the very beginning.
Text: Bettina Dunker