The Ranchi Police is working on evolving a system for victims of road accident where relief will be provided at a short notice to the persons affected. They system is already working in Jamshedpur and will be replicated in the capital where a timely relief mechanism to accident victims is still a far cry. A meeting in the direction of evolving a relief mechanism was held today with all the stake holders of the proposed system.
The medical and relief system will be jointly managed by three key institutions-- Medica, Ranchi police and Tata Steel-- with the help of private hospitals which will attend a victim brought to its premises. Among the key stake holders, Medica will provide expertise; police will provide officials and driver whereas the entire system will be funded by Tata. The orientation programme was attended by Senior Superintendent of Police Prabhat Kumar, City SP Jaya Roy, Traffic SP, Karthik S, representatives of Medica and hospitals shortlisted to be part of the relief network.
“This system is working in Jamshedpur. So when Chief Minister saw this he asked it to implement it in Ranchi also. In this programme basically we will be implementing a concept developed by Medica,” said Traffic SP Karthik S.
The concept envisages placing ambulances at strategic location so as to provide medical relief within 15 minutes and setting up a control room managed by Medica to oversee entire process of medical relief including response time. Police has started mapping of the capital to identify strategic spots to station ambulances that will be pressed into the service of an accident victim and also to mark hospitals where a patient can be taken to trauma care.
Over two-dozen hospitals attended the meeting organized by Ranchi police and the concept was shared among them to clarify their roles and responsibilities. Under the proposed system police will provide one constable, driver and fuel for the ambulances. The medical institution will monitor delivery of services and will coordinate with all hospitals on board the noble initiative and Tata will provide funds for relief activities. The system will be put to trial within a week.
“We have given pro forma to all the hospitals, we have received eight ambulances, staffs have been trained and within a week we will dry run the system. However, final implementation will take some time,” added the Traffic SP.
Incidentally, a training programme was conducted at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences few days back to senisitise police officials and apprise them to carry out on the spot relief and rescue operations.