article on helping road victims
Answers
Answer:
Help Victim1
Life of an accident victim can be saved by administering timely medical aid. The 'GOLDEN HOUR'
The first hour after the trauma is called the 'golden hour' Instant and proper first aid given to road accident victims during this hour increases the chance of survival manifold and reduce the severity of injuries. Many deaths and impact of injuries can be prevented with First Aid if causalities are treated immediately.
First aid is the initial care given to an injured person. This timely care prior to the arrival of the medical help means the difference between life and death. As it is not always possible that proper medical care reaches the victim within an hour. In that case the passerby, onlookers and other people involved can provide the first aid to serious victims. However, improper handling to victims sometime worsens the situation. Though providing proper first aid to an accident victim is not so complicated but one should be aware of the procedures and precautions.
One of the misconceptions about road accidents death is that most of them happen due to sever injury and loss of blood. But reality is that most common cause of death in road accidents due to loss of oxygen supply. Most of the times it happens because airway gets blocked due to great impact and shock to body. Normally it takes less than four minutes for a blocked airway to cause death.
Explanation:
A total of 4,69,882 people have been injured in road accidents in 2013 and 1,37,423 people have died in motor vehicle collisions. Many of these lives could have been saved, if they had received timely help. But due to the apathy of society many people just passed by people as they lay in critical conditions.
This apathy is mostly due to people being scared of police and legal proceedings hence hesitating to get victims the help they require.
Save LIFE Foundation to help good samaritans and bystanders in such situations filed a petition in 2012 and during the hearing of this petition the Supreme Court instructed the Government of India to pass guidelines that would encourage bystanders to help victims of accidents.
The guidelines which were finally notified on 13th May 2015 by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways are as follows-
1. A Good Samaritan who takes an accident victim to a hospital will not be asked any questions and can leave immediately. He/she cannot be forced to stay unless they are an eyewitness in which case only their address can be noted.
2. A bystander for helping the accident victim could be rewarded by the State government so as to encourage others to come to the rescue of accident victims.
3. The Good Samaritan will NOT be held for any criminal or civil liability.
4. A bystander who calls the police or emergency service to the site of a road accident does not have to reveal his name or any other personal details on the phone or in person.
5. In the Medico Legal Forms which are provided by hospitals, it is optional for good Samaritans to submit their personal information.
6. Disciplinary or departmental action shall be taken against those officials who coerce a bystander for revealing his/her personal details.
7. If a bystander voluntarily states that he/she has been an eyewitness to the accident he/she can be examined as part of the investigation by police or during trial but this can be done only once, for which the State Government shall develop Standard Operating Procedures to ensure that the Good Samaritan is not harassed.