Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan Launches CPR Challenge

Telangana Governor Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday launched the "CPR Challenge", and called upon the people to learn how to do CPR.

She said that if more people got trained in doing CPR, more lives could be saved.

The Governor was speaking at a special function to distribute sarees to the members of the Raj Bhavan Pariwar at Raj Bhavan.

Referring to the recent incident when a woman police constable named Naveena saved the life of a girl who had gotten injured during the cricket match ticket sales at the Gymkhana grounds, the Governor appreciated the constable for performing the CPR and saving the girl.

"I call upon everyone to learn CPR and be able to save precious lives in times of emergency. On this auspicious occasion of the Bathukamma celebrations, let us all pledge to learn the CPR and first aid skills," Dr. Soundararajan said.

Continuing the tradition of personally selecting and gifting sarees to the members of the Raj Bhavan Pariwar as part of the Bathukamma celebrations, the Governor also distributed sarees to all the women staff of the Raj Bhavan at the function.

On the occasion, she said that Bathukamma, the unique flower festival of Telangana, was also laced with the underlying practice of women exchanging nutritional food items among themselves, and said that she was amazed at the custom upon knowing about it.