The first stage of the Secours Tour, supported by the group La Dépêche du Midi, will take place this Monday, June 19 in Muret. All summer long, a bus will criss-cross the Occitanie region to prevent cardiovascular disease and learn life-saving techniques.
Students from the Toulouse health faculty and volunteers from the French Cardiology Federation are launching the Secours Tour 2023. In a red bus, they will crisscross the Occitanie region to provide information on cardiovascular risk factors and initiate first aid gestures . First stage this Monday, June 19 in Muret.
80% of heart attacks could be avoided
“The French Federation of Cardiology estimates that 80% of premature heart attacks could be avoided by acting on cardiovascular risk factors. However, in France, only 4% of the Health Insurance budget is devoted to prevention. From the onset from atherosclerosis (deposit of lipid plaques on the arteries) to cardiac arrest, we are talking about the same disease. Learning life-saving gestures is important, but it only saves 10% of people. We we also want to act upstream of the heart attack or cerebrovascular accident (CVA)”, explains Quentin Estrade, intern in cardiology at the University Hospital Center (CHU) of Toulouse, co-initiator with Antoine Noguero of Secours Tour.
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After launching the “Mêlée contre le Covid” in 2020, the two medical students raised €65,000 to finance this new project supported by the La Dépêche du Midi group, the AG2R La Mondiale, the City of Toulouse, Keolis and the French Federation of Cardiology.
During the stages of the Rescue Tour – around twenty are planned for this summer – the public will be able to come and get information and take stock of their risk factors (high blood pressure, tobacco, cholesterol, overweight/obesity, diabetes). A life-saving gestures initiation workshop will also be offered.
First meeting, this Monday, June 19, from 10:30 a.m., in Muret (opposite the town hall). The red Secours Tour bus will then stop at the Dépêche du Midi on June 20. Before returning to Toulouse for the Festival du Bien Manger, place du Capitole from July 7 to 9, he will head for Gruissan (June 27), Saint-Clar (June 29) and Montauban (July 4).