Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 1: National Bone and Joint Day is being celebrated on August 14 every year.
Addressing a press conference, HoD orthopedics Dr Sanjeev Gupta said for 2023, Indian Orthopaedic Association has assigned, “Each ONE Train ONE Save ONE” as the theme.
“This year focus is on deaths occurring due to trauma and accidents in India,” Dr Gupta said.
“India ranks number 1 in term of road traffic accidents deaths across the 199 countries reported in the World Road Statistics, 2018 followed by China and US. A total of 4,49,002 road accidents have been reported by States and Union Territories (UTs) in the calendar year 2019. Claiming 1,51,113 lives and causing injuries to 4,51,361 persons,” he said.
“Young adults in the age group of 18 – 45 years accounted for nearly 69.3 percent of road accident victims. The working age group of 18 – 60 accounted for a share of 84.3 percent in the total road accident deaths. Males in number of total accident deaths was 86% while the share of females hovered around 14% in 2019,” the HoD said.
He said most of these deaths occur due to lack of first medical care in first golden hour after accident. “Many of these accident victims life can be saved by proving proper first aid immediately after accident which can very well be provide by any common man or police personal if they are trained for this,” he added.
“This link of proper first aid /basic life support immediately after accident is missing. We at Indian orthopaedic association have decided to provide training to 1.4 Lac drivers,Traffic Police, students, police men and common man during bone & Joint week from 1st August to 6th August 23 and make them life saviours .This training would be provided by the members of Indian Orthopaedic association all across India,” Dr Gupta said.
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