Happy to help

[V.Balasubramani]

Share:

Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn WhatsApp Email Share Link

Happy to help

Chennai: On 29 October, the Supreme Court passed an order, which would protect good Samaritans -- those helping road accident victims from undergoing cumbersome legal procedures. Further, the apex court directed the Central government to pass it within three months.

The SC bench comprising Justices Ranjan Gogoi and RF Nariman passed the watershed order after a petition filed by an NGO, saveLife Foundation in 2012.

This has garnered mixed reaction from the public. It is claimed that a good number of victims, irrespective of major or minor mishaps, are left without help at the spot, in the fear of legal procedures.

Talking to News Today about the SC order, Sijo Joseph, who is working with International Justice Mission (IJM), welcomes the same.

He noted that earlier an individual's willingness to help was regulated through such legal procedures in the past.
'Hereafter, the public will not be hesitant to help accident victims. This move will also change the outlook of private hospitals and police towards accident cases', he adds.

Read more at: Happy to help | News Today

 

[JR]

Oh, god! This news itself could be a life-saver!

My second nephew is a Schizophrenia sufferer and one day my sister, absorbed in some other thoughts, mistook his medicine for hers and swallowed just 1 pill of my second nephew's medicine. That's all! She totally collapsed, was unable to speak and lost her consciousness. Then her family rushed her to the hospital, and to their surprise, most of the hospitals rejected taking her in, telling it was 'Police Case'. Her family was in complete panic, finally some hospital admitted her and gave her drips.

For an ordinary case of difficulty itself such as this, the hospitals fuss so much. For real accident cases, one cannot imagine. Sometime back in FB, I read with picture an incident where police and people were watching a dying patient from a road accident because for some reason similar to what is stated in OP (related to rules and regulations), the ambulance could not arrive in time.