Gregori High senior Alan Ovrahim’s father was a hospital nurse for almost 20 years and often told his son about people having heart attacks for underlying heart conditions and collapsing.
“There was no one around them at the scene to do CPR … or it took a long time to get to the hospitals. Unfortunately, those people passed away,” Ovrahim said. “As I grew older, I understood … I could work toward making America safer.”
That’s when Ovrahim’s father, who worked at Memorial Medical Center, told him about CPR classes through the American Heart Association, and he wondered how he could bring training to high school students…