Indian Institute of Technology Madras’(IIT Madras) Centre of Excellence for Road Safety(CoERS)organized a workshop in Delhi today (11th Nov 2022) to strength trauma care in the country. The topic of the workshop was ‘Strengthening Trauma Care: An Essential Component of Road Safety.’
Funded by the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) along with the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), healthcare officials of different States and Union Territories attended the workshop.
Annually, the number of road crash fatalities has been increasing with over 1.5 lakh lives lost from road crashes during 2019, as per a MoRTH report. Further, the number of people who sustained grievous injuries was 1.36 lakh people. These injuries lead to a sustained reduction in quality of life with additional medical expenses and even loss of income due to injuries or disabilities leading to a major socio-economic burden.
As nearly 50 per cent of mortality occurred within first 10 minutes of an injury, a good trauma care programme is required to improve road safety to allow efficient and streamlined patient care delivery from evacuation to rehabilitation.
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