National Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Day and 2nd National CPR Day Celebration 2025, and 10th CPR-Ready PH Campaign Nationwide
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MARIKINA CITY, July 16, 2025 (SDN) — Ever conscious and active in its corporate social responsibility (CSR), its public service, the Philippine Heart Association (PHA) opens tomorrow, Thursday, a grand trio of celebrations at the Nangka High School (NHS) here at Pisces St., Kabayahi Road.
Dr. Walid Amil, is the new PHA president from July 1 this year to June 30, 2026.
He sent his regrets as he leaves Manila tomorrow to talk about the CPR-ReadyPH’s Milestones at the July 18 ASEAN Federation of Cardiology Congress in Penang, Malaysia. This is a first for the PH.
Amil, the seventh to become president of the PHA from the PHA Zamboanga Chapter which he founded, and first Muslim and Mindanao native president of the PHA, assumed the organization’s top post vice former president Dr. Rodney M. Jimenez. The presidency of the group revolves around its hierarchy of leadership.
PHA CPR Council Chair Dr. Don Robespierre Reyes and Council members will be on hand for the activities at Nangka High School to impart life-saving advice and tips on heart health and other related topics.
For the event, the 73 years old PHA invited City Mayor Marjorie Maan Teodoro, who is on her first three years term after winning as the local government’s chief executive in the recent May 12 National and Local Elections (NLE). Activities start at 8 a.m.
The PHA through its Council on CPR (CCPR) is the event’s lead organization in collaboration with the Marikina City Government and Nangka High School.
With Nangka High School as the nerve center of the activities, the celebration’s theme revolves around “ZapPinas 2025 First Responder Team, sa CPR Win na Win! (CPR Ready na ba ang Barangay Mo?)
Expected participants include 600 teachers, members of the Philippine National Police (PNP), disaster risk reduction and management office (DRRMO) field staff, Barangay Health Workers (BHWs), Barangay Tanod, Print and Online Media, and Mowelfund staff, among other expected participants and attendees.
As nationwide auxiliary celebrations, PHA’s 13 chapters across the country will be marking the event in North Luzon, Cagayan Valley, Baguio- Benguet, Central Luzon, Southern Tagalog, Bicol, Cebu, Western Visayas Panay, Western Visayas Occidental, Eastern Visayas, North Mindanao, South Mindanao-Davao, Zamboanga Peninsula and NCR. Each Chapter has field reporters.
Some highlights, developments in the PHA’s various advocacies:
- The PHA calls on the national and local governments to implement the CPR Act/RA 10871 (which mandates public and private schools to include age-appropriate hands-only CPR in the school curriculum.); and pass the Automated External Defibillator Act (requiring the placement of AEDs in public spaces and increasing public awareness on its role in saving lives).
- It is also time for each local government unit to have an emergency medical system.
- CPR-ReadyPH Campaign is 10 years old. When will the Philippines clinch the CPR-Ready Country status?
- The Department of Education (DepEd) has yet to implement the nine-year-old CPR Act which lapsed into law on July 17, 2016.
- July 2025: Sen, Lito Lapid refiled the Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Bill, an act requiring the placement of AED in public spaces and increasing public awareness on its role in saving lives.
- July 2025: Rep. Richard Gomez refiled the House version of the AED Bill.
- October 2024: The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) hailed the history of the CPR-ReadyPH and the story behind the Samboy Lim Law, calling it “amazing”, during PHA Council on CPR Chair Dr. Don Robespierre Reyes’ presentation and subsequent election as ILCOR treasurer at the ILCOR Members’ Meeting in Taipei.
- October 2024: Department of Tourism (DOT)-PHA-Philippine College of Emergency Medicine (PCE) consultative meeting. Agenda: CPR- and Automated.
- External Defibrillator-Readiness are prerequisites for DOT-accreditation; CPR and AED guidelines from PHA; and emergency medicine guidelines from PCEM.
- March 2024 President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared July 17 every year as National CPR Day.
- August 2023: PHA got Rep. Richard Gomez’s commitment anew as CPR champ and CPR-ReadyPH Ambassador.
- July 16, 2016: Enactment of CPR Act.
- July 2015: PHA launched CPR-ReadyPH. Goals: to bring CPR to every Filipino home; to make the Philippines a CPR-Ready Country.
- Basketball legend Samboy Lim inspired the filing/passage of the CPR Bill/RA 10871. Samboy Lim’s legacy lives on.
- CPR-READY.PH’s Major Allies: Department of Health (DOH), Senate, Congress, local government units (Ormoc, Balanga, Vigan) Department of Tourism (CPR on Wheels on Wings), Camp Crame, Camp Aguinaldo, Philippine College of Emergency Medicine. — EDD K. Usman/Gynna P. Gagelonia, PHA Media Relations Officer (/)