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India is
among ten countries where WHO, along with consortium partners, is implementing the Global Road Traffic Injury Prevention
Project (GRIPP /RS 10) to reduce death and disability through road traffic
injury prevention projects. At a
two-day planning meeting in New Delhi on 27 – 28 April, officials from Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of
Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh
governments, consortium partners - Global Road Safety Partnership, Johns Hopkins
University, World Resource Institute for Sustainable Transport (EMBARQ) and the
World Bank – along with WHO, discussed implementation of the project.
The
DirectorGeneral Health Services, Dr R K
Srivastava,inaugurated
the meeting. The consortium partners and local stakeholders discussed key
priority interventions on road safety, trauma care and data system.
Over
the last few years road safety has received increasing international
attention. WHO’s ‘World report on road traffic injury prevention’and
three subsequent World Health Assembly and United Nations resolutions
have
increased awareness about road safety and helped identify several highly
cost-effective interventions. These, if implemented across the globe, would
reduce death and injury due to road traffic accidents every year.
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