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Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has made special arrangements to reduce road accident in Uttar Pradesh and provide quick medical facilities to the injured.
LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has made special arrangements for reducing road accidents in Uttar Pradesh and providing quick medical facilities to the injured. Under the guidance of CM Yogi, the State Road Safety Council has provided medical facilities to the injured in the Golden Hour to provide medical facilities in the Golden Hour to the Emergency Ward in all the district hospitals of the state, along with Kanpur, Prayagraj, Meerut, Meerut, Meerut, Meerut, Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur, the state medical colleges of Gorakhpur Level-1 is being upgraded.
Also, the work of increasing the facility of 500 additional beds in the Trauma Center of KGMU Hospital in the capital Lucknow is going on fast. Apart from this, skill development centers are being set up under NELS program in major government medical colleges of the state. Where doctors and paramedical staff are being trained in especially in Golden Hour. Also, the response time of 108 ambulances has been reduced from 15 minutes to 8:23 minutes to provide quick treatment to the injured of the road accident.
Upgrade to Trauma Center in Kanpur, Prayagraj, Meerut, Gorakhpur
Under the guidance and direction of CM Yogi Adityanath, instead of referring the injured of State Road Safety Council Road Accident to high -level institutions, emergency wards of all state medical colleges of the state are being upgraded to provide quick medical arrangements at the local level. For which EMO posts have been created along with anesthesia, bone pathologist, general surgeon in trauma centers and emergency wards.
Also, in the Emergency Wing of each medical college, C.T. The facility of scan, X-ray and ultra sound is also being provided. For this, a provision of Rs 300 crore was made in the budget of 2024-25. So that proper medical facilities can be provided to the injured in Golden Hour. Also, trauma centers of state medical colleges of Kanpur, Prayagraj, Meerut, Gorakhpur are being upgraded from Level-2 to Level-1.
Also, the work of increasing the facility of 500 additional beds is going on fast in the Trauma Center of Level-1 of KGMU Hospital in the capital Lucknow. At present, only 460 beds are available in the Trauma Center in KGMU Lucknow, whose number will soon be 960.
Doctors and paramedical staff are being trained
To further upgrade the Emergency Care of Road Accident in the state, skill development centers are being operated in BHU, Varanasi and Gorakhpur Medical College under the National Emergency Life Support Program (NELS). Apart from this, skill development centers are also being set up in medical colleges of Kanpur, Agra, Meerut, Jhusi and Prayagraj.
More than 300 doctors and paramedic staff have been given five -day training in emergency care in collaboration with WHO and AIIMS Delhi. This program is specially designed to provide emergency treatment to the injured in Golden Hour. Along with this, on the initiative of the state government, about 2916 disaster friends have been trained as the first responder, which will be able to provide first aid facility to the injured.
108 ambulance response time reduced by 8:23 minutes
Also, to provide medical facility to the injured person of Road Accident in Golden Hour, it has been decided to reduce the response of 108 ambulance service from 15 minutes to 8:23 minutes. For this, not only the 108 ambulance service system will be further strengthened, as well as their deployment and calling response will also be intensified.
Along with this, the State Road Safety Council has issued a directive to provide duty on the basis of fitness and health check -up of all buses and health check -ups of all buses of State Road Transport Corporation to prevent accidents on the roads. Under this, health checkup of 18,230 drivers was conducted on the basis of health check -up, about 9.44 percent, 1721 drivers were found unfit. Those who have been removed from duty till all the standards of the health check -up card are met.
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