Dec 16 2022

A student and faculty members of Niigata University (NU) cooperated in performing first aid activities at the "Iwate Morioka City Marathon 2022," and received a letter of appreciation from the organizing committee of the event on Monday, November 28.

At the marathon event, held on Sunday, October 23, a man in his 70's who was participating in the full marathon lost his consciousness and suffered a temporal cardiac arrest. The student and two faculty members took appropriate life-saving measures such as providing cardiac massage and using an AED, and handed the man over to an ambulance crew. The man regained consciousness on the way to hospital and was discharged safely at a later date.

Ms. YAMAZAKI Yukiho, a master's degree student at the Graduate School of Modern Society and Culture, who received the letter of appreciation, strongly stated: "I hope everyone is able to provide basic life support. I want to be a person who can act accordingly in situations like this where you never know what might happen at any moment."

From left: Mr. TAKAHASHI Kazuhito (Secretary General of Iwate Morioka City Marathon Organizing Committee); Ms. YAMAZAKI Yukiho (Graduate Student); Specially Appointed Assistant Professor KAMEOKA Maki; Associate Professor MURAYAMA Toshio