Stanley cath lab does 1,602 procedures during pandemic
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Hospital has catered for more than 32,500 patients with COVID-19
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Hospital has catered for more than 32,500 patients with COVID-19 The Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory of the Government Stanley Medical College Hospital performed 1,602 angiography and angioplasty procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The lab functioned uninterrupted during the pandemic, and all patients were screened for COVID-19 before the procedure. A total of 5,043 cardiac intervention procedures have so far been performed at the lab, which was started in 2018. The 5,000th procedure was performed on February 16, hospital dean P. Balaji said in a press release.
State sees sharp drop in road accident fatalities
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The figure has reduced by 54% when compared to 2016
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The figure has reduced by 54% when compared to 2016
Fatalities in road accidents in the State have reduced by 54% when compared to the base year of 2016.
The total number of fatalities dropped from 17,218 in 2016 to 10,525 in 2019. As many as 7,287 fatalities were reported until November 30 last year.
The State had been seeing a steep rise in the number of accidents, the number of fatal accidents and the number of persons injured in accidents.
At one point, the figures were the highest in the country. In 2008, the number of persons who died in fatal accidents was 12,784. It kept rising year after year and reached 17,218 in 2016.
December 23, 2020
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The objective is to enhance road safety measures, and increase the survival of road accident survival and reduce its occurrence
The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, will collaborate with the Rajasthan government to help it implement a structured framework for a data-driven system approach to road safety. An MoU for this collaboration was signed recently between the Rajasthan government represented by its Transport Commissioner Ravi Jain and Dean (Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research) of IIT Madras Ravindra Gettu.
The objective of this collaboration is to enhance road safety measures, increase capacity and capability across the board in the Government to both increase the survivability of road accident victims and reduce occurrence rate in the State, says arelease from IIT Madras.