Four policemen injured in road mishap at Bhilaipahari

Jamshedpur : Four policemen were injured when the�jeep they were travelling in for patrolling was dashed by a tanker at Bhilaipahari on NH-33 under MGM police station area near Jamshedpur on Friday morning.

Two of the policemen received serious injuries. The injured policemen were taken to Tata Main Hospital, where the two who had sustained serious injuries were admitted,�while the other two� were released after first-aid.

According to information, all the injured cops posted at MGM police station were on patrolling the NH-33 as the mishap took place.� Those admitted at the hospital were identified as Rajendra Paswan (head constable) and Birendra Yadav (constable).�The doctors treating the two seriously injured said that though their condition is serious.

Officer-in-charge, Binod Kumar said that the investigation into the incident was on. The incident took place at about 7.30 am, when the patrolling vehicle of MGM police station was returning toward the police station having carried out the patrolling the NH-33.

Kumar said that as the police jeep was negotiating the national highway, the tanker dashed the police jeep from the front, causing the jeep damaged.

Meanwhile it is more than five years when proposals for the opening of trauma centres alongside National Highways 33 were sanctioned. But due to lack of vision and red-tapism the health department has not been able to come up with any trauma centre in a functioning State.

In 2004 the Rotary Club had also announced to set up trauma care centres on the Tata-Ranchi stretch of NH 33. The objective was to put a check on the number of cases of victims succumbing to injuries in highway mishaps.

�Highway trauma centres have worked well in Kerala. There has been a substantial reduction in the number of deaths even in major road accidents due to timely medical attention.

We thought of carrying the project on NH 33 but some how things did not materialize. We did not receive the land nor any support from the government,� said an official of the Rotary Club.

He went on to add that the trauma care centres was planned to have everything required to provide immediate attention and safe transportation for accident victims during within one hour of the accident.

Decisions to open eight trauma centres on the National Highways were taken under two different proposals (year 2005-06 and 2006-07) by the successive State Governments of Arjun Munda and Madhu Koda for which even the Central Government had sanctioned funds in different phases.