Apollo Children’s Hospitals commemorated World Trauma Day

Apollo Children’s Hospitals commemorated World Trauma Day with a Trauma Awareness Campaign at City Schools

On World Trauma Day, Apollo Children's Hospitals, a part of Apollo Hospitals Group, Asia’s largest and most trusted multi-specialty chain of hospitals along with Apollo Shine foundation recognized the “unsung heroes’ of trauma care and emergency services of 108 and 1066. Dr. J. Radhakrishnan, Principal Secretary to the Govt. of Tamil Nadu- Health & Family Welfare Dept, Dr. Ravi, IPS Additional DGP, Tamil Nadu and, Dr. Sathyabhama, Regional Director for Medical Services, Apollo Hospitals gave away awards and mementos to the life savers.

World Trauma Day is marked on 17^th October, every year to showcase the need to prevent deaths and disabilities caused by accidents. Trauma is one of the leading cause of death in India due to lack of immediate medical attention. India accounts for one-fifth of global deaths due to road accidents. One million people are killed and over 20 million hospitalized each year.

In India we see 400 fatalities a day which is 17 per hour with 16 children dying on Indian Roads daily with one death happening every 4 min. 90% of these are due to driver carelessness and only 10% are due to other reasons. 

Speaking at the occasion, Dr. Sathyabhama, Regional Director for Medical Services, Apollo Hospitals, said, “Trauma injuries and death is a silent epidemic that we have to tackle, the challenge is the increasing number of emergency cases in Tamil Nadu. The dedication, the courage, expertise of the entire Emergency teams from 1066 and 108 has been tremendous. Apollo Hospitals Group is privileged to have outstanding Emergency departments in Trauma/ Surgical Critical Care. The Emergency care teams are available 24X7 at all hospitals to provide selfless services. I am honored to be here on this World Trauma Day, which highlights the need to prevent death caused by accidents.”  

Apollo Children’s Hospital and Apollo Shine Foundation – a not for profit student health initiative  together organized a ten day awareness campaign called “Voice of the Students” across the schools in the city to educate motorists on road safety and get them to pledge and abide by traffic and safety rules. Various programs like skits, safety walks holding placards with road safety awareness slogans were organized as a part of the campaign. Post the ten day awareness drive the final award ceremony was organized today in which the heroes of the emergency services and students of participating institutions were recognized with awards and accolades.

As we recognize our emergency caregivers on World Trauma Day, Apollo Hospitals group, recently signed an MOU with Alert, an NGO that that trains common people in emergency management, creating an awareness, imparting skill training of first aid and creating first responders.