By Onkareshwar Pandey

New Delhi, Feb 27, 2020: Approximately 1.35 million people die due to road accidents every year globally. Between 20 and 50 million more people suffer non-fatal injuries, with many incurring a disability as a result of their injury.

The United Nation’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has set an ambitious target of halving the global number of deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes by 2020.

In this context, a One- day National Workshop on Highway Accidents and Emergency Medical Management Is being organised at the Kamladevi Block , India International Center, New Delhi on 28th February by the Policy Perspective Foundation (PPF) in association with Ministry of Road, Transport & Highways and Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. PPF is a Delhi based non-profit and apolitical think tank dealing with various issues related to national interest including challenges to internal peace, stability and developments within India.

The objective of organising this workshop is to discuss various issues arising from high number of casualties in highway accidents in India.

According to Hartwig Schafer, World Bank’s Vice President for South Asia ‘India’s roads are among the most dangerous in the world. Every year they claim the lives of about 1,50,000 people leaving more than five times their number injured or maimed for life.’

A recently released study on ‘Mortality due to road injuries in the states of India: The Global burden of disease’ covering a period between 1990 to 2017 mentions that deaths due to road accidents increased by 58.7% during this period in India as compared to 8.1% globally. Significantly, Indian highways constitute less than 6 % of the total road lengths but account for over 60 % causalities in road accidents. 

The main focus of this workshop would be to deliberate and decide appropriate recommendations relating to policy, infrastructure, human resources and equipment etc. to ensure prompt and professional emergency medical response to victims of highway accidents within the golden hour. In this initiative of PPF, reputed professional organisations with long field and practical experience have been associated as Knowledge Partners.

An important Knowledge partner in this National Workshop is the Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE), a Centre of Excellence for Road Safety in South East Asia. IRTE has been accorded consultative status by the United Nations (UNSECE) Dr Rohit Baluja, President IRTE, who is also a Member at the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration will be delivering the key note address and also moderating the forenoon session dealing with ‘Road Safety Management & Infrastructure’. Other Panelists in this session include Dr S Velmurugan, Senior Principal Scientist, CRRI, Prof (Dr) Sewa Ram from Centre of Road Safety, School of Planning & Architect (SPA), New Delhi, Deepanshu Gupta, Vice President, India Road Safety Campaign and Dr Eilia Jafar from Save Life Foundation.

The theme of the Second session of this Workshop in the afternoon is ‘Post-Crash Emergency Medical Management’. Dr MC Mishra, former Director AIIMS would deliver the key note address in this session captioned ’Injury: The Epidemic of 21st Century’. He will also moderate this session where the Panelists include Dr Muzaffar Ahmad, former Member, NDMA, Prof Amit Gupta from AIIMS Trauma Centre, New Delhi, Dr Tamorish Kole, President Asian Society of Emergency Medicine, Dr Tanu Jain, Asst Director General Health Services (MiH&FW) and NM Prusty, President Humanitarian Aid International (HAI)

This Workshop will be inaugurated by Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy, former Union Minister and presently MP Lok Sabha. Other institutions and partners in this Workshop include Sphere India, Adrid, India Observer Post, Noida International University and CEAT Tyre. The inspiration behind organising this National Workshop is KM Singh, Vice President, PPF, who is also the former Member NDMA and former DG CISF.

Image courtesy – Financial Express / Deccan Herald

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