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Road crashes kill 12000 a yr: ARI

Staff Correspondent
About 50 percent of road traffic deaths happen within 15 minutes of the accident as a result of injuries to brain, heart and large blood vessels, 35 percent die in next one to two hours of head and chest injuries and the rest 15 percent die oxer the next 30 days from sepsis and organ failure.
This was stated at a seminar titled 'Injury prevention and pre- hospital care' organised jointly by Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology' (Buet), Accident Research Institute (ARI) and Labaid Specialised Hospital in Buetyesterday.
"The time between injury and initial stabilisation of the injured is the single most important factor for patient's survival in first 30 to 60 minutes," said ARI Director Prof Md Mazharul Hoque.
Citing examples of patients who come for treatment at the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), Valerie A Taylor, co-ordinator of the organisation, said, "Mishandling of the patients of spinal injury with partial damage causes total damage of the patient"
Most of the people do not know there is a technique of handling the patients with spinal injury, said Valerie who insisted on having a stretcher to handle these patients in each upazila healh complex.
CRP has taken a school awareness programme to educate the students regarding this issue, she added.
A total of 1.2 million road accident fatalities occur each year of which 90 percent takes place in developing w’orld, said Dr Mazhar, adding that around 50 per cent of worldwide fatalities and injuries occur in Asia and Pacific region.
“For every death, four people suffer with severe disabilities, 10 people require hospital admission and 30 people require emergency room treat inenL The economic cost of these accidents ranges from one to five per-cent ofGDPfbrevery nation,'' he said
Unless new commitment to prevention is followed this figure could increase by 100 percent over the next 15 to 20 years in developing countries like Bangladesh, making road traffic injuries one of the top three causes of the global burden of disease, he added.
Dr Mazhar said, “Bangladesh will experience al arming increase in road accidents and casualties over the next 10 years due to rapid growth of road transport infrastructure and motorisation"
According to ARI, road fatalities
each year in the country are about 10 to 12 thousand. Seventy-five percent of the total fatalities occur in rural areas, which include national high ways, regional highways and rural roads. Fifty-three percent of the fatalities are pedestrians alone. Nearly 80 percent of the road deaths take place among the age group from five to 45, which have significant social and economic impact, hventy-one percent children under Ki become victim of fatalities
ARI recommended for integration of exposure control, crash pre vention, behaviour modification, injury control and post-injury management as five general strategies to develop a balanced traffic safety programme.
Dr AMM Safiullah, vice-chancellor of Buet. was the chief guest at the seminar presided over by Dr MQK Talukder, chairman of the Centre for Woman and Child I lealth.
Chief Consultant and I lead of the Department of Tranma , Orthopaedics and Accidents at Labaid Specialised I lospital Prof Dr M Amjad Hossain, and Trauma and Arthroplasty Surgeon Dr Graham Forward of Australia were present at the seminar.