iPhone App Saves Life in Haiti
On July 7, 2009, we posted an article on the benefits of the American Heart Association’s iPhone Application. At the time we knew that it was just a matter of time before we heard about it saving lives.
Well, an incredibly heartwarming story has come out of all of the heartbreak in Haiti. According to a NBC News Today Show online article, an American Dad was working for a mission organization in Haity “making a film about the impact of poverty on the people of Haiti. He and a colleague… had just returned to the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince” when the earthquake hit.
The online article explains that “thanks to the iPhone first-aid app he’d downloaded, he knew how to fashion a bandage and tourniquet for his leg and to stop the bleeding from his head wound. The app also warned him not to fall asleep if he felt he was going into shock, so he set his cell phone’s alarm clock to go off every 20 minutes. And then for 65 hours, he waited for whatever fate had in store for him.”
An AdAge article today reports that the American Heart Association has reaped the benefits of this amazing story. Sales of their app have skyrocketed in recent days.
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