#Ghaziabad hospital trains residents in first aid

GHAZIABAD: A private hospital in the city has initiated a novel drive, ‘Good Samaritans’, to train RWA members, ambulance drivers and cops in emergency response and in administering first aid in the event of accidents.

Dr Rahul Bansal, HoD of the hospital’s emergency medicine department, said the time lost during a medical emergency resulted in loss of life. “On the eve of World Trauma Day we have come up with the idea of training people from a non-medical background to respond in a medical emergency,” Bansal said.

Rajender Chug, an RWA member attending the workshop, said, “To a patient in a medical emergency such as a cardiac arrest or a road accident, the right emergency response can make a difference of life and death and I strongly feel that everyone has to have some basic knowledge in tackling medical emergency situation and that is why I am here.”

Chug said a group of doctors demonstrated how to deal with accident victims and burn injury victims.

Stating from a Law Commission data , Dr Rahul Bansal says ” about eight per cent victims in India do not receive emergency medical care within that Golden Hour an in most cases the succumb because in most case people do not know what to do.” “And it is this scenario which we intend to change because I someone has elementary knowledge of how to attend to road accident victim he could save a life” adds Bansal. In India every 60 minutes, 15 persons die in traffic accidents and fifty per cent of fatalities can be prevented if victims receive medical attention on time.