Y.L. Lin Hung Tai Education Foundation began to donate a total of 157 chest compression system since this August to different counties and cities in Taiwan, including offshore islands, and the Air Rescue Group. Taichung received 17 sets to significantly enhance the survival rate of patients. Deputy Mayor Kuang-yao Chang expressed gratitude to the foundation for its charitable act to enrich rescue resources that help save more lives. (Reported by Shi-jing Kou)
The donation ceremony was held at the Disaster Response Center of the Taichung City Fire Bureau. Deputy Mayor Chang was accompanied by the Deputy Director-General Jin-cai Ceng of Taichung City Fire Bureau to receive the donation. Fire bureaus of central Taiwan, including Hsinchu, Miaoli, Nantou, Changhua, Yunlin, and Kinmen also sent representatives to the ceremony to express gratitude to the Y.L. Lin Hung Tai Education Foundation for its charitable act. According to the Advisor Zhi-ming Chang of the Y.L. Lin Hung Tai Education Foundation, apart from onsite application, the chest compression system can serve as an important teaching aide in first aid education. Chang hoped that the donation can contribute to the emergency recuse for society in order to save more lives in critical condition during the golden period.

According to Deputy Director-General Jin-cai Ceng of Taichung City Fire Bureau, there are 128,000 emergency medical cases on average every year, and 2,500 of them are cardiac cases. By administering CPR in the rescue, about 2%, or some 50 cases, recovered and discharged. With the intervention of the chest compression system this year, the recovery rate has increased to over 2.5%. This means the system serves as another pair of hands to provide more efficient and uninterrupted CPR to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients. It complies with the high-quality CPR requirements and raises the survival rate of patients.