Ranchi: Ranchi police’s ambitious golden hour system, launched in February this year amid fanfare and lifesaving promises, is in ICU wounded by sheer lack of support from and co-ordination between government departments.
The brainchild of traffic SP Rajeev Ranjan, the system pledged prompt response and medical attention to victims of road accidents to improve their chances of survival. Chief minister Hemant Soren, who had launched the service from the traffic headquarters in Kutchery, had promised special funds for timely trauma care and reinforced ambulance fleet to hospitals. He had even asked police, in the presence of DGP Rajeev Kumar and home secretary N.N. Pandey, to roll out the mission even outside Ranchi. Three months down the line, the existential gestures remain paralysed. |
