Dr B R Ravikanthe Gowda, Bengaluru Joint Site visitors Commissioner of Police, Thursday met with the authorities of Manipal Hospitals to debate the current set up of heart-shaped visitors lights and QR codes posted close by for the general public to entry ambulance service.
“There are plans to develop the initiative to extra key visitors junctions. We started this initiative by putting in heart-shaped visitors lights, audio messages, and QR codes at key junctions. Nonetheless, at the moment, now we have put in them at 20 visitors junctions in Bangalore,” mentioned Gowda.
Bengaluru Joint Site visitors Commissioner of Police Dr B R Ravikanthe Gowda with Dr H Sudarshan Ballal, Chairman of the Manipal hospital group and others (Specific picture)
Gowda held talks with Dr H Sudarshan Ballal, Chairman of the hospital group, and reviewed the progress of the initiative that was rolled out in Bengaluru final week as a part of the World Coronary heart Day marketing campaign.
Manipal Hospitals, in affiliation with the civic physique, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), and Bengaluru metropolis visitors police put in heart-shaped visitors lights and QR codes at key junctions to assist the general public get first-aid and medical companies to individuals with cardiac emergencies.
“Individuals usually neglect the variety of ambulance companies throughout an emergency scenario, which may price lives. As an answer to this drawback, the hospital launched the QR code initiative, the place one of many codes will assist individuals join with an emergency ambulance quantity, and the opposite will educate them on CPR or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, which can assist them save lives of infants, kids, and adults throughout cardiac emergencies,” Manipal Hospitals mentioned in a press release.
Regardless of CPR being a life-saving approach, solely 2 per cent of India’s inhabitants is aware of find out how to use it appropriately, it mentioned.
Whereas thanking Bangalore Metropolis Site visitors Police and BBMP for his or her assist to make the QR code initiative successful, Ballal mentioned, “The center-shaped sign on the visitors junction is a name to everybody that each life counts and to not neglect their very own hearts. There was a steep rise in instances of coronary heart illnesses amongst all age teams attributable to poor existence. So, it can be crucial for everybody to know the fundamental first help strategies, which may save lives throughout cardiac emergencies.”
The joint visitors police commissioner mentioned that the QR codes, an progressive resolution, will present entry to medical companies throughout cardiac emergencies and create consciousness in regards to the right strategies of CPR.
The initiative will assist affected individuals obtain well timed medical assist, leading to decrease mortality, the officer mentioned.
The QR codes have been initially put in at key visitors junctions, together with Manipal Outdated Airport, Trinity Circle, Brigade Street, Anil Kimble LIC, MG Street, Cubbon Park, Indian Specific, Mekhri Circle, Hebbal underneath the flyover, Kundangalli Sahakar Nagar, Sankey Street, Yeshwanthpur Essential, Whitefield Bigbazar, Ofarm, Kundanhalli, Sarjapur, Sony World Koramangala, Jayanagar, Lalbagh West and City Corridor.