Several lacunae affecting emergency trauma care system in India- Experts
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A major reason adding to trauma fatalities in India is the absence of "essential emergency care" for victims along with the lack of trained manpower for dealing with such cases, experts said.
"The provision of essential emergency trauma care, like pre-hospital care, is absent in many states.
"In some states, these are very primitive without state-of -the-art ambulances, trained manpower and proper organisation in definite geographical areas," AIIMS Director MC Mishra said here today at the East Asia Summit (EAS) Round Table on Trauma Care and Nursing.
He further noted that while "some states have adopted the Universal Emergency Number 108 for ambulance, police and fire and the current systems run on GPS/GPRS, these are not backed by proper legislative and regulatory control over manpower training and organisational aspects".
Highlighting the challenges in trauma care systems in India, Mishra said that the secondary and tertiary healthcare infrastructure presently cannot cater to the needs of multiple trauma patients and that there is lack of trained manpower which can effectively cater to seriously injured patients at all levels of the healthcare.
"The provision of essential emergency trauma care, like pre-hospital care, is absent in many states.
"In some states, these are very primitive without state-of -the-art ambulances, trained manpower and proper organisation in definite geographical areas," AIIMS Director MC Mishra said here today at the East Asia Summit (EAS) Round Table on Trauma Care and Nursing.
He further noted that while "some states have adopted the Universal Emergency Number 108 for ambulance, police and fire and the current systems run on GPS/GPRS, these are not backed by proper legislative and regulatory control over manpower training and organisational aspects".
Highlighting the challenges in trauma care systems in India, Mishra said that the secondary and tertiary healthcare infrastructure presently cannot cater to the needs of multiple trauma patients and that there is lack of trained manpower which can effectively cater to seriously injured patients at all levels of the healthcare.
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