As many as 3,330 persons died in Chhattisgarh in road accidents during 2014-15.
The total number of road accidents on National Highways in the entire country during the calendar year 2014 is 1,37,903 which accounted for a share of 28.2 per cent in total road accidents.
Notably, an emergency Ambulance Service ‘108 Sanjeevani Express’ operational in Chhattisgarh has attended over 10 lakh people in emergency across the state between 2011 and 2015 including a large number of road mishap victims.
Similarly, Sanjeevani Express successfully provided medical assistance to over 2.49 lakh patients in the state between January 1 and December 31, 2015.
“As many as 1013570 patients were attended by Sanjeevani Express during the last five years while the service has provided medical assistance to around 249242 patients in 2015,” Public Relations Officer of 108 service in Chhattisgarh Shibu Kumar.
Of 249242 patients were attended across the State and a large count of emergencies were attended in Naxal-infested districts, including 15123 patients in Rajnandgaon, Kanker (11660), Dantewada (5624), Narayanpur (2125) and Sukma (2625), informed Kumar.
With 240 ambulances, emergencies including animal bite, assault, cardio vascular, diabetes, disaster due to natural elements, epilepsy, fire, hazardous material, industrial, intentional self-harm, neonatal, poisoning, pregnancy related, respiratory and others were attended promptly, he said.