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Road traffic accidents take a toll

Research published at the end of last year spotlighted the leading cause of premature mortality among young men in India: road traffic accidents.  In 2017, 2.2 lakh Indians lost their lives due to injuries sustained on the country’s roads. Males accounted for the overwhelming majority of such fatalities, with 77 percent of road traffic accident …

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“The difference between life and death” – Vice President stresses the importance of emergency medicine

At a recent conference in New Delhi, Vice President Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu stressed the importance of emergency medicine, calling its availability “the difference between life and death”.  India played host to the tenth Asian Conference on Emergency Medicine in the national capital, bringing together more than 2,000 emergency medicine specialists from 32 countries. The Vice …

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Road accident deaths: Who leads the nation?

Delhi is still leading Indian cities in the number of road accident deaths, recording 106 more such fatalities in 2018 compared to 2017. Uttar Pradesh, meanwhile, leads the states. Fortunately, the same was not true of some other populous cities. Chennai, Kolkata, and Maharashtra all witnessed declines in their road accident deaths in 2018 compared …

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Farishte Dilli Ke scheme: 3,000 lives saved

The Delhi government says it has saved 3,000 lives of trauma care patients since February last year in line with its Farishte Dilli Ke scheme.  To facilitate the initiative, the Delhi government has released trauma care guidelines to hospitals in the state, in order to protect the rights of and guarantee treatment to those admitted …

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‘The golden hour’: The importance of emergency care

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has called on citizens to come to the aid of those who have been involved in accidents, emphasising the importance of the ‘golden hour’ in emergency medicine, and announcing that costs of emergency care will be borne by the state government.  Kejriwal was speaking at an event commemorating a government …

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Trauma care boon at Delhi hospital

The Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Delhi has become home to a 382-bed facility specialising in the field of trauma care, addressing one of India’s most underserved medical needs.  The centre will be home to emergency beds, an intensive care unit (ICU), and six operating theatres. Chief Minister Arvind Kejiriwal, who inaugurated the centre on …

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Ambulances on bikes: A success in Delhi

The Delhi government has touted the success of its ambulances on bikes scheme and plan for a citywide expansion, it was reported over the weekend.  The initiative was rolled out earlier this year in East Delhi by Chief Minister Arvind Kejiriwal and Health Minister Satyender Jain. Under the scheme, first responder vehicles (FRVs) equipped with …

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Emergency care at every medical college

Every medical college in India will be home to an emergency care department by 2022, it has been announced. The news comes as a boon for emergency medicine, the status of which in India has long been scrutinised as a driver behind the high death toll due to physical trauma in the country.  In the …

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Delhi High Court hits the brakes on bike ambulances

Just days after its launch, the Delhi government’s ‘ambulances on bikes’ initiative has hit a legal roadblock following a suit filed in the Delhi High Court. Seventy percent of the staff manning the bikes – known as ‘first responder vehicles’ (FRVs) – are not trained paramedics, claims the public interest litigation (PIL) filed by petitioner …

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Ambulances on bikes: Health on two wheels

The Delhi government has come up with a novel response to India’s ambulance shortages: bicycles. A new initiative will see cyclists ferrying patients through congested areas and narrow lanes on specially outfitted bikes. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Health Minister Satyendra Jain launched the initiative at the Delhi Secretariat, with a fleet of sixteen …

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