LOK SABHA
All Passenger carrying trains are provided with First Aid Boxes containing essential drugs and dressing materials and the First Aid Boxes are available with the Guards of all the trains. The front line staff viz. Train Superintendents, Train Conductors, Travelling ticket Examiners, etc. are also trained in rendering first aid.
In addition Augmented First Aid Boxes with wider range of medicines, disposable medical material, etc. have been provided with the Train Superintendents/Pantry Car managers of Rajdhani/Shatabdi Express Trains and on nominated long distance Mail/Express trains. Services of doctors travelling as passengers are utilized to attend to passengers who are in need of urgent medical assistance. For this purpose the allopathic doctors travelling in such trains are provided with 10% concession in the train fare.
There is a very well developed system to send informations to the Station Managers where there is next scheduled halt of the train. The Station Managers have authority to call the Railway doctor/Govt. doctor/Private doctor to come to railway station and to attend the sick passengers travelling in the train. Necessary medical treatment is being provided. This is being used extensively at present. Trains can also make unscheduled halts, if necessary, at the stations en-route in extreme emergencies. The Station Managers have details of doctors, clinics & hospitals of Railways, government and Private, in the vicinity of the station, so that their services could be requisitioned, in such situations. In addition, a database has also been developed regarding availability of the medical facilities of Railway, Government and Private Sector along railway tracks and at stations en-route, for providing emergency medical care to sick travelling passengers in the Trains and during Railway accidents.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways, Shri R.Velu in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.
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