First aid in India
Everything First Aid Angel offers for India: free first aid guides, online courses, in-person training providers, first aid kits and the local emergency number.
Emergency number in India: 102
First aid in India: what to know
Our guides follow the Australian (ANZCOR) guidelines. CPR is the same everywhere — 30 compressions to 2 breaths at 100–120 per minute, and use a defibrillator as soon as one arrives — but training in India differs in a few places worth knowing.
- Guidelines
- Indian Resuscitation Council — AHA guidelines; the steps match ours except where noted here.
- Choking
- For a conscious adult who cannot cough, breathe or speak: abdominal thrusts (the Heimlich manoeuvre) until the blockage clears; some training bodies teach cycles of 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts. Our guides describe the Australian method (back blows and chest thrusts).
- Helping is protected
- Good Samaritan guidelines issued by the Supreme Court (2016) and the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019 protect people who help road accident victims.
- 112 is the national emergency number; 108 reaches ambulance services in many states.
Training in India
In-person first aid courses from education providers listed in our directory.
Online courses
Learn at your own pace and finish with a certificate of completion.
First aid kits
Kits available for UK & Ireland.
Local emergency details
Emergency numbers, languages and crisis lines for India.
Learn, train and prepare in India
Free guides to read now, local training, online courses, and the kit to have ready.
Free first aid guides
Kits and defibrillators
First Aid Angel never replaces emergency services. In an emergency call 102 or your local emergency number first.