The police, fire force, armed forces and doctors should work together and be prepared to handle any kind of extreme situations, Home Minister V S Acharya said here on Thursday.
India is prone to natural disasters, but the consequences of man made disasters can be handled in a more systematic way, Acharya said, at a national seminar here on “Man Made Disasters: Medical Emergencies and Mass Casualty Management”, organised by the Directorates of Home Guards, Civil Defence, Fire and Emergency Services and Bangalore University. Health and Family Welfare Services Secretary M Madan Gopal made a presentation on “Arogya Kavacha 108” a 24-hour emergency response service launched recently. Madan Gopal said that Karnataka had nearly 65,000 doctors, which is the highest in the country. Full confidenceIndia, which is the second largest populated country in the world, has experience of handling numbers when it comes to casualties, but needs more manpower to handle unforeseen incidents with full confidence, he felt. Chairman of Narayana Hrudayalaya, Dr Devi Shetty spoke about his health city venture, which currently had over 3,000 beds, ready to handle any disaster crisis. Dr Shetty said, “We are planning to add more beds to handle any kind of situations and plan to have at least 5,000 beds in the future.” On potential terror attacks on medical facilities, he said his hospital has a plan to treat patients outside the hospital with all medical facilities if such threats arose. Director of Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology Dr C N Manjunath spoke on certain basic medical aids and practices a lay person must know while handling a person who suffer a heart attack. ‘Make laws optional’“Whenever there is an accident on the road, people fear to help the victim as they do not want to be called as witnesses. Such laws must be made optional to save people’s lives on the road,” he said and added, whenever there was an emergency and mass casualties were shifted, the traffic had to be managed to save precious time of the victims. When Dr Manjunath said that visiting of VVIPs to the hospitals must be restricted during such crisis, the Home Minister immediately stood up and quipped that VVIPs visits must be banned.DGP, Fire Services, Jija M Harisingh and Deputy IGP Nisar U were present on the occasion.
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