Ambulance Service in Phase 10 Mohali

Deaths due to ambulance delay - GS Ambulance

Since the lockdown began and ended, one topic that people frequently bring up is the number of deaths attributed to traffic in India.

Even though it's a sizable number, the deaths brought on by the coronavirus are unparalleled since they continue to rise.

But it's noteworthy to note that, similarly to the coronavirus, there is no known treatment for traffic fatalities, other than, of course, good sense, taking the right precautions, and a little bit of luck.

But getting back to the issue, traffic-related fatalities are incredibly common, and there are a variety of possible causes.

Therefore, we'll delve deeper into the facts of road deaths and potential causes in today's GS Ambulance Service blog.

A genuine statistic

In India, there were 4.6 lakh occurrences of road accidents reported in 2018, and over a quarter of those cases featured at least one fatality.

In 2018, 1.5 lakh persons lost their lives in traffic accidents, making India the top country for traffic-related fatalities.

The most common cause of accidents, overspeeding, has been steadily and significantly increasing.

So, yes, traffic does result in more fatalities and property damage annually than the Coronavirus has in its whole life.

Again, though, it's like contrasting apples with oranges.

However, the numbers of people killed in traffic-related accidents in the top and second-ranked countries are comparable.

In 2018, there were 45,000 traffic-related fatalities, with India having more than three times as many as the US.

What's more worrying is that although traffic-related fatalities are declining in other nations like the USA and China, they are gradually increasing in India.

Not only are there more fatalities, but the fatality rate per accident is also increasing rapidly.

So why is India's rate of increase in accident-related fatalities higher than that of its peers?

Apart from anarchy on the roads, Ambulance Service in Phase 10 Mohali thinks that a few other factors may include a lack of emergency services, bad infrastructure, or traffic, which makes it impossible for ambulances to get to accident patients on time in some areas.

Conclusion

It is safe to conclude that fewer people are dying as a result of the lockdown, at least in some parts, but India needs to deploy appropriate emergency services otherwise a catastrophe will gradually engulf the country.

Ambulance improvements can be useful in areas like Corona testing, which GS Ambulance Service will be able to perform if given the chance on a nationwide scale, in addition to reducing traffic-related mortality.