Paris, 5 July 2016
Addressing major public health challenges for more than twenty years, Fondation CNP Assurances is committed to improving the care of people in need of urgent medical attention (cardiac arrest and first aid) and is lending its support to the Regional Nature Park in Corsica with the installation of cardiac defibrillators in the refuges located along the GR 20 trail.
Regarded as one of the leading hiking trails in Europe, the GR 20, which crosses the Corsican mountains from north to south, is also one of the most beautiful and toughest on the continent. Fondation CNP Assurances has decided to provide financial support of €10,900 to Corsica Regional Nature Park for the installation of 16 cardiac defibrillators in the refuges along the route. These refuges, located at an altitude greater than 1,500 meters and accessible only on foot, host between 8,000 and 10,000 people every year.
Fondation CNP Assurances has also decided to finance training and raise awareness of their use. As a priority, the training will involve the wardens in these refuges, and will then be provided to all those involved in the sectors concerned.
The 16 cardiac defibrillators will be installed in the following refuges: Orto di U Piobbu and Carozzu (Calenzana), Ascu Stagnu (Ascu), Tighjettu (Albertacce), Ciottulu di i mori (Albertacce), Manganu (Orto), Petra Piana (Venaco), l’Onda (Venaco), Prati (Palneca), Usciolu (Cozzano), Asinau (Quenza), Paliri (Conca), A Sega (Corte), Puscaghja (Evisa), Bocchi Nera, Plateau du Cuscionu (Quenza) and Matalza (Zicavo).
A foundation serving public health
On behalf of the lives it insures, CNP Assurances is fully committed to public health through its company foundation.
The objective of Fondation CNP Assurances is to promote, support and initiate all actions and all general interest projects developed in the field of health. It has a 4 million euro long-term action plan dedicated exclusively to the projects it supports.
After fifteen years of commitment to combatting pain, in 2009, Fondation CNP Assurances chose to work to improve the care of people in need of urgent medical attention (cardiac arrest and first aid). Since then, it has launched several calls for projects and has financed the installation of more than 3,200 cardiac defibrillators and raised public awareness concerning their use in more than 2,100 communes and local communities, at a total cost of €2,033,700.