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Drowning prompts call to learn CPR Tragedy calls for action. By ABC online - 23rd November 2000 - Back to News A recent child drowning in north-east Victoria has renewed pleas by Rural Ambulance Victoria for people to learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
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