Police to start ambulance rescue services in Jamshedpur

Jamshedpur : Senior superintendent of police, Amol V Homkar held a meeting with representatives of all the local hospitals and Tata Steel to carve out the modalities for launching the system for providing immediate relief to the mishap victims. Representative of East India Health Foundation, an NGO working in this field also attended the meeting to provide its expertise.

The senior SP said that the idea behind launching the system was to provide immediate relief to the injured in any road mishap or any other incident so that precious life could be saved by rushing the victim to the nearest hospital.

According to information the district police will provide six ambulances with drivers where as the Tata Steel will provide medical staff who will be working for rescuing the injured from a scene of mishap and rushing them to a nearest hospital.

He said that the Medica Group which runs Kantilal Memorial Hospital in Bistupur has taken special interest in starting the system for providing quick relief. Other hospitals which have also joined the district police’s initiative is Tata Main Hospital, Tata Motors Hospital, and Bramhanand Narayana Multi-speciality Hospital.

�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.

As per information available the Government sanctioned Rs 24 crore for the construction of trauma centre while Rs 13 crore has been released. The Centre too agreed to sanction Rs six crore for proposed trauma centres at Hazaribagh and Dhanbad while releasing Rs 2.50 crore as seed amount.

As per the guidelines of the National Highway Authority of India it is mandatory to set up trauma centres every 100 kilometre. But Jharkhand having 1805 km of total stretch of highways there is no trauma centre.

As per the claim of the officials of the health department two of the trauma centres at Bahragora and Garhwa are under construction. While three other trauma centres are proposed to establish at Bundu, Hazaribagh, and Ranchi at National Highway 33 and the remaining are to be located in Dhanbad and Daltonganj.

A city-based senior trauma care specialist agreed with the importance of attention during the golden hour. �If accident victims receive proper medical attention and transported to hospital within an hour of the mishap, chances of survival increase,� he said.