Traffic Jams intensifying day after, month after month and year after head to no dead end in Kashmir Valley particularly Srinagar the summer capitals and unfortunately. Traffic jams are not to be reduced just for reducing travel inconveniences of people but also for reducing the risk of life to patients shifted to health care centres in ambulances and private cars both during the day time and as well as nights. Traffic signals were though installed to ease the traffic regulation system in Srinagar but the timing fixed for changing the movement of traffic in different directions being kept for over three minutes also becomes a cause of inconvenience for the movement of both the passengers and private vehicles and as well as the health emergencies. Unfortunately even traffic signals are violated to clear movement of top Government functionaries in South and East Srinagar areas at the cost of the travel conveniences of health emergencies including ambulances of both Government and as well as private hospitals in Srinagar city. True it is that ambulances can be cleared easily in short time and at times are cleared immediately also but this is not the case with the patients taken in private cars to nearest Government or private health facilities within and outside the Srinagar city. Though traffic cops regulating the traffic at four way crossings in both the congested and civil lines areas of Srinagar city can’t have inputs about the movement of patients in private cars and caught in traffic jams due to delays in movement of traffic directions by traffic signals but the timing of traffic signals once reduced to just two minutes like metropolitan cities of the country would by all standards of understandabilities reduce the scope for any travel inconvenience to both the hospital ambulances and as well as private cars carrying critical patients to nearest health facility centres anywhere in cities and towns across Kashmir.
If the system governing the traffic rules does not reduce the risk to lives in case of health emergencies but wisdom if properly applied to the situation won’t only change the system but would also reduce the scope of risk to lives in the movement of health emergencies both in Srinagar city and as well as in towns and villages across Jammu & Kashmir. Administrative wisdom demands that Government enforces some travel guidelines on both the traffic police and as well as both private and Government hospitals for round the clock hassle free movement of health emergencies across Jammu & Kashmir.
Never forget that patients are taken in private cars when hospital authorities show their inability to provide ambulances for shifting of patients. If the system governing the traffic rules does not reduce the risk to lives in case of health emergencies but wisdom if properly applied to the situation won’t only change the system but would also reduce the scope of risk to lives in the movement of health emergencies both in Srinagar city and as well as in towns and villages across Jammu & Kashmir. Administrative wisdom demands that Government enforces some travel guidelines on both the traffic police and as well as both private and Government hospitals for round the clock hassle free movement of health emergencies across Jammu & Kashmir.
