ABC project launched

Hyderabad: GVK EMRI, the professional Pre Hospital ambulance based service organisation, working in partnership with the government of Telangana and helping road traffic accident victims since 2005 launched the first of its kind of a project “Active Blooding Control(ABC)” at its campus at Deva Yamjal in the outskirts of the city on Friday.

100 volunteers comprised of Police, auto drivers, bus drivers, students, volunteers, nss volunteers, petrol bunk staff, shop owners and others have attended the 90 minutes training programme and learned the technique practically by demonstrating on their co-participants. Each of the participants was given certificates.

According to Dr. G.V. Ramana Rao, MD, Director, Emergency Medicine Learning Centre (EMLC) and Research, every 1 minute a road traffic accident occurs and every 4 minutes a road traffic accident death occurs in India. Bleeding is the leading cause of death in road traffic accidents. Bystanders in road traffic accidents can help the road traffic accident victims in saving lives. This is possible by a simple technique of “Pressure bandage” when the bleeding is active.

GVK EMRI has 334 ambulances in the state of Telangana and 11000 across India they transport 1350 emergency patients to various hospitals every day in Hyderabad. Of which 205 cases are vehicular trauma-related and need to be applied Pressure Bandage technique as they suffer from severe bleeding.

If Pressure Bandage Technique doesn’t work, they can also use another technique called Tourniquet. This has to be done two inches above the pace where bleeding is happening. Either ABC or Tourniquet technique is used to stop the bleeding. And it has to be done till the ambulance arrives.