WIRE โ€” Every day, lives are lost not because modern medicine has failed, but because help did not arrive soon enough or because those present did not know what to do. Whether at home, at church, in a market, at work, or on the roadside, a person can suddenly collapse from cardiac arrest. In those first few minutes, the difference between life and death often depends not on a doctor or a hospital, but on the actions of ordinary people nearby. Unfortunately, this is where Ghana faces a major challenge. A study by Offei-Awuku et al. at Winneba Municipal Hospital found that 96.2% of clinical staff did not have a valid or recent Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, with only 3.9% meeting the national certification requirement. These findings highlight significant gaps in BLS tr

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