CASH REWARD FOR RUSHING INJURED TO HOSPITAL

LUCKNOW: Now, anyone who takes a person injured in a road accident to a nearby hospital will get a cash award of ₹2,000 and the injured will be provided an immediate assistance of ₹50,000 for the treatment.

The State Road Safety Council approved the transport department’s proposal to this effect at its meeting here on Tuesday evening after chief minister Yogi Aditanath, who presided over the meeting, gave a dressing down to officials for their lack of efforts to contain increasing number of road mishaps in UP.

Officials from transport, traffic, PWD, home, health and education departments were part of the meeting.

“The CM who is chairperson of the State Road Safety Council approved the proposal for honouring the Good Samaritans with a cash reward of ₹2,000 for taking a person injured in a road accident to a hospital and also a financial assistance of ₹50,000 to the injured for treatment within 24 hours of his getting admitted to the hospital,” a senior transport department official said.

The money will be provided from the road safety fund. “Now, the procedure for providing the award to the Good Samaritans and the financial assistance to the injured will be laid down,” said the official.

On a suggestion by an NGO participating in the meeting, the CM also directed principal secretary, health, Prashant Trivedi to reframe the existing ambulance policy. He said the ambulances of the private hospitals should be networked with the 108 ambulance service.