Bhubaneswar: Indian Red Cross Society has joined hands with the State Transport Authority (STA) to provide first aid and save saving skills for at least 30,000 people, most of them live or do business along the highway, so they can change the Saviors.
Victims of road accidents, whenever needed.
“We have taken the project on mission mode.
We, together with STA, will identify the highway vendors, Dhaba staff and residents who live close to the highway and train them to use first aid.
We will also provide first aid training and road safety lessons To school and college students, “said the IAS CTM Suguna officer, who was the Secretary of the Odisha Branch of the Indian Red Cross, said.
On the occasion of the world’s first aid day on Saturday, the Functioner of the Red Cross and the Transportation Commissioner Arun Bothra said the road safety strategy, with STA promised to conduct a massive awareness campaign.
Anthra said 50% of the death accident could be avoided if the victims received immediate medical assistance.
The increase in deaths from accidents has been the cause of concern for the government for some time.
The Supreme Court Committee on road safety, which monitors the implementation of traffic related rules throughout the country, has attracted the state government repeatedly because of his failure to drop the number of accidental deaths.
Road death has increased by 21% from 2014 (3,931 deaths) until 2019 (4,738 deaths).
This regardless of the Supreme Court Committee about road safety directed the state government to reduce it to 50% by 2020.
The death rate (death per hundred accidents) was around 48.2% in Odisha, much higher than the national average of 36.6 %.
The number of accident deaths increased to 1877 between January and April this year from 1,471 during the appropriate months of 2020, up to a 27.60% increase.
Chief Secretary of the Suresh Chandra Mohaparna recently asked the police and regional transportation officers to increase the enforcement of road safety rules.
The main secretary also asked the police to improve the performance of the highway patrol system to reduce death from a road accident.