New Delhi, Jan 11: Major hospitals across the city denied health minister Satyendra Jain’s claim on Sunday that the AAP government’s odd-even rule had resulted in fewer accidents on Delhi roads.
“The number of trauma cases brought to the emergency wing has gone down by 15-20 per cent. In fact, the number of people coming in with head injuries due to accidents has reduced by more than half,” Jain said at the founder’s day event at Lok Nayak Hospital.
However, both government and private hospitals said there had been no change in trauma cases since the 15-day road-rationing trial kicked in on January 1.
A senior doctor at AIIMS’s Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre said, “The numbers have remained more or less the same. The hospital usually receives 150-180 trauma cases every day, not all of which are (road) accidents. To judge whether the odd-even plan has had any impact, data from all 15 days needs to be analysed.”
The view was echoes by doctors at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and Sushruta Trauma Centre. Together, the three government hospitals handle around 3,000 trauma cases every month.
Officials at the Lok Nayak Hospital, where Jain spoke on Sunday, too said the numbers were the same as the last week of December. “We receive 9–12 accident cases every day, the same as last week,” a senior official said.
