Pilot Projects launched for emergency care of road accident victims

In order to give improve emergency care of accident victims, pilot projects have been launched by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on the Gurgaon - Jaipur section of NH 8, Mumbai – Vadodara of NH – 8 and Ranchi – Rargaon - Mahulia of NH 33 for providing cashless treatment to road accident victims for 48 hours at expenditure up to a limit of Rs. 30,000.

This was informed by Minister of State for Road Transport and Highwaysi  Pon. Radhakrishnan in the Rajya Sabha on December 22, 2014. He said that GPS enabled ambulances, connected with a central control room through a toll-free number 1033, are stationed at distance of 20 km to transport the injured to the hospitals for treatment within the ‘Golden Hour’.

 Further, the Minister informed that the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, under the scheme “National Highways Accident Relief Service Scheme (NHARSS)” provides 10-ton cranes and small medium cranes for hilly areas and ambulances to States/ UTs for relief and rescue measures in the aftermath of accidents by way of evacuating road accident victim to nearest medical aid centre and for clearing the accident site.  Their deployment is done by the respective State Governments/ UTs on National Highways on accident prone stretches, having an average distance of 50 Kms.  Ambulances, Route Patrol Vehicles and Tow Away Cranes are also provided at an average length of 50 kilometre on NHs entrusted to NHAI, he said.

The list of all ambulances, cranes & route patrol vehicles along with their locations is available on NHAI website www.nhai.org.