In cheesy films when there’s an emergency and someone shouts “is there a doctor around?” one always appears from the crowd to help, but in the real world it often isn’t that easy to find someone with sound medical knowledge who’d be able to save lives in an emergency.
Well in order to address this problem, a new application called Rapid Rescue is currently being tested in Singapore, which aims to connect those in medical emergencies with trained first aiders who are nearby.
The app has been developed by the Singapore Red Cross Society and enables trained first aiders to set up dedicated push notifications, so if someone close to them needs help they’ll be alerted straight away.
Rapid Rescue: Find first aiders during medical emergencies [Shiny Shiny]