India needs to re-work its traffic rules to avoid a surge in road accident-related casualties, an expert has warned. Says amendments could lessen traumatic cases in hospitals.
JAIPUR, India -The observation by Dr Cody Bunger, president of the International Society of Orthopaediatric and Traumatology, a Belgium-based international body of orthopaedic surgeons, came after he admitted his shock at the sheer number of trauma cases in Indian hospitals, a very large number of which are related to road accidents.
Dr Bunger was addressing the Indian Orthopaedics Association annual conference in Jaipur as a guest speaker.
- Bunger had studied the Indian traffic system rules and have come to the conclusion that the authorities should meet and discuss a new set of traffic rules that could be implemented to cut down road accidents.
- India is developing very fast industrially and a lot of industrial goods movements are done by road transport which has increased traffic movement on the roads and, with bad traffic rules, more than half-a-million people in the country die because of road accidents.
- Moreover, the high rate of road accidents has also increased the number of trauma cases which the government-owned hospitals have to deal with," he said.
- The Indian trauma wards are full of people injured in road accidents. In a developing economy of India, a lot of lives could be saved by amending the traffic rules and educating people on road safety, Dr Bunger added.
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