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Trauma center for aid of accident victims. Highway Trauma Care Centre in Gujrat. Lifeline Foundation, started under innovative initiative of Dr. Subrato Das
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Highway Trauma Care Centre in Gujrat • Lifeline Foundation, started under innovative initiative of Dr. Subrato Das • Pioneered emergency rescue operations in Gujarat on a stretch of 488 KM s on the National Highway no 8 and 175 KM s on the National Highway 8A. • Axis Bank, supported the in running Highway Trauma Car under its CSR initiatives • Persons affected by motor accidents on these stretch of national highways are provided services covering • Evacuation of accident victims, • Services of ambulances, cranes and metal cutters, • Reaching victims to the nearest medical centre, • Providing assistance for medical, legal and police related problems, • Arrangement of blood etc. • Capacity building of the local population like the highway toll tax plaza attendants, villagers, petrol pump attendants, doctors, paramedics and police for extending support in such emergency operations. • Started on the 21st June 2005, 22 numbers of calls and saving 33 lives (till August 2005)14 hospitals and ambulance providers are associated as partners in this network.