Tuesday, July 23, 2013

சாலை விபத்து :- முதல் 48 மணிநேரத்திற்கு இலவச சிகிச்சை : அடுத்த வாரம் முதல் !


 THE TIMES OF INDIA :- 23-07-2013,

NEW DELHI: The country's first cashless treatment of road accident victims, which ensures free treatment in the first 48 hours, will be launched next Monday with the 200-km stretch from Gurgaon's 32-lane toll plaza to Jaipur bypass of NH-8 to be the pilot corridor.

A trial run has been conducted on this stretch for the past three weeks involving over 70 volunteers trained by AIIMS as first responders. The programme, to be launched by the road transport and highways ministry, aims to shift crash victims within 20 minutes to a nearby hospital. Sources said more than 50 hospitals have been networked to admit injured people immediately and provide treatment.

According to various studies, it has been found that the survival chances of crash victims go up by 50% if they are provided treatment within one hour. Over 1.4 lakh people were killed in road accidents in India in 2012. 
                                                                                                                                                              
INJURED WILL GET HASSLE_FREE TREATMENT
As part of the cashless scheme, medical expenses of the first two days will be borne by the government. This will ensure quick and hassle-free treatment of the injured. "Medical expenses of those who have insurance will automatically come from the insurance companies. Government will bear the entire expense of those who don't have such insurance," a ministry official said. However, there is a maximum cap of Rs 30,000 for free treatment of accident victims.
"We want to roll out the cashless treatment plan for the entire country. Insurance companies will be interested in this since their outgo on account of third party claims will reduce if we are able to check the total number of fatalities," road transport minister Oscar Fernandes said.

The recent global report on road safety by World Health Organization (WHO) claimed that the number of seriously injured being rushed to hospital was as less as 11 in every hundred in India. Even in the most ideal situation, only 49 in every 100 injured get ambulances. It said several countries had reduced road fatalities by improving ambulance facilities and immediate medical care to crash victims.

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Ten advance life-support ambulances have been deployed on the pilot stretch. "These would be stationed at an approximate distance of 20 km from each other, thus serving 10 km on either side. The average response time will not be more than 20 minutes," said Birendra Mohanty, vice-president of Financial Inclusion Solution Group (FISG) at ICICI Lombard.

Officials said a toll free number (1033) to call an ambulance or report an accident had been activated and a call centre was engaged to take care of all such emergency calls. "We have already asked NHAI to activate this number for all accidents reported on national highways," said a ministry official.

The plan for cashless treatment of injured in road accidents was first conceptualized in October 2009. In early 2012, the government told the Supreme Court that a pilot project would be launched on the Pathankot-Vaishno Devi stretch of NH-1A.

But late last year, the stretch was changed after the road transport ministry found that Gurgaon-Jaipur stretch had reported the highest number of accidents (over 2,500) and deaths (260) as well.
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