Mobile app from IIT-M to track real-time road accident information
Posted on: 11/Nov/2017 2:54:35 PM
On Friday, the Tamil Nadu Health Minister C Vijay Baskar has launched a mobile app to consolidate all accidents occurring in the state.
IIT-Madras has developed this app. It will capture information sourced out of all government hospitals in Tamil Nadu. Beginning with a pilot project, the app has absorbed information of trauma and postmortem from across 5 hospitals.
Vijay Baskar, launching the app at a conference in IIT-M said the app aims at bringing down the total number of deaths caused by accidents and also figure out the ways in which these can be prevented.
The Sustained Development Goal (SDG) aims at reducing the overall deaths and injuries across the globe caused by road accidents by 50 percent by the year 2023. This can be made possible only through timely updates and concrete treatment methods for the injured victims within the golden hour.
A total of 6 categories shall be studied. These are
- Road accidents
- Fall injuries
- Surgeries
- Head injuries
- Assault cases
- Mode of transferring patients
This shall be spread across all the government hospitals through the program, said a staff member of the engineering design department of IIT-M.
The primary aim is to substantially improve survival rate of injured victims. At the same time, the reasons for trauma and type of injuries shall also be researched and identified. This will be of great help in preventing accidents, he adds.
Australia-India Trauma System
The Australia-India Trauma System (AITSC) will also encompass the 182-year old Madras Medical College. This will assemble 2 governments, clinicians, industry, and researchers for betterment of information, resources and pilot new systems of emergency care.
A new wing under the state health department called the Tamil Nadu Accident and Emergency Care Initiative will work towards reducing fatalities of road traffic accidents.
There have been several lists where the state is topped to hold maximum road accidents and fatalities. Following this, the TAEI is now formed.
TAEI along with IIT-Madras and the National Trauma Research Institute of Australia has organized a conference in IITM where discussions on different issues pertaining to road accidents, facilities of pre-hospitalization, trauma care centers and facilities or research and trauma, etc. were discussed.
The health minister further stresses on the fact that they are striving to bring forth the best practices in the state.
