TRAUMA IN INDIA-FACTFILE

All Trauma Data from India Primarily emanates out of Road Traffic Injury estimates

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• Road-traffic accidents are increasing at annual rate of 3%.
• In 1997, 10.1% of all deaths in India were due to accidents and injuries.
• A vehicular accident is reported every 2 minutes and a death every 8 minutes on Indian roads.
• During 1998
  • nearly 80,000 lives were lost and
  • 330,000 people were injured
  • 78% were men in age group of 20-44 years, causing significant impact on productivity
• A trauma-related death occurs in India every 1.9 minutes.
• The majority of fatal road-traffic accident victims are pedestrians, two wheeler riders and bicyclists.

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Trauma and Injury is a major blow to our economy

• Mortality in serious (ISS > 16) injuries 6X worse in a developing country such as India compared to a developed country
• 90% of all Road Traffic Deaths – Middle and Low Income Countries like India.
• In addition to excess mortality, tremendous burden of disability in developing nations.

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India Loses approx 2-2.5% of its GDP to only Road Traffic Injuries

• All Trauma is not Road Traffic Injuries
• 22.8% of all Trauma is Transport related Injuries
• Majority 77.2% is other trauma like:
  • Falls (pediatric age group).
  • Agricultural related trauma.
  • Fire Arms, Intentional self harm.
  • Assault, Fall of objects.
  • Natural Disasters
  • Terrorist Attacks
  • Possibility of "NBC" events