In a recent health check-up conducted by the Delhi Police it has been found that around 30 per cent of Traffic Police personnel, who are doing their best in providing a safe environment on the roads of the city, are suffering from a disease caused due to standing for long hours.
'Varicose veins' is a condition where there is blood stagnation in legs, resulting in pains, swelling, prominent veins, skin discoloration and in extreme case non-healing ulcer.
In the phase I of study, Delhi Traffic Police's- Road Safety Cell in association with Daayitva, a non- Governmental Organization (NGO) on 24th August organized a heath check-up camp especially for the traffic police and other personnels through which they found out that 35 out of 116 Delhi Traffic Police personnels are suffering from “varicose veins”.
Around 5500 Traffic police personnel of Delhi police work in the field standing for nearly 8-12 hours and sometimes double shifts.
“A team of special doctors from Paras Hospital conducted the check-ups of the traffic police personnel, prior to which a brief presentation on the cause and consequences and precautions to be taken during the problem. Police personnel's especially traffic police are more prone to such dangerous disease - varicose veins. Also, this is one of the main reasons behind the long leaves by the personnel's because they stand for nearly 15 hours in a day and sometime performs double shift if someone gets absent. Apart from this disease, the cadre also goes through many other major heath issues due to various reasons such as air pollution, poor weather, rain, wind, dust and so on,” said a senior ranked Delhi Police (Traffic).
The officer further added, “After witnessing such a large number, we have also decided to conduct more health campaigns to find how many others are suffering from the same problem and will provide special care to them. Also, we have planned to conduct more health campaigns to find out other diseases cause due to air pollution.”