Shimla MP seeks trauma centre for BBN area

Shimla, December 15 

Asserting that the lack of emergency healthcare facilities led to the loss of many lives in road accidents, Shimla MP Virender Kashyap has demanded that a trauma centre be set up in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) industrial area of Solan district.

  During his meeting with Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda at Parliament House in New Delhi on Friday, Kashyap requested him to open the trauma centre in the area that falls under the Shimla parliamentary constituency and is touted as the state’s largest industrial hub.

 In a press statement issued here on Saturday, the Shimla MP said he told Nadda that 66 persons died and 196 others were injured in 168 road accidents in the area in two years.

 Of them, 41 were killed and 148 were injured in 121 road accidents in the BBN area till November this year.

The state government had provided Rs 5.44 crore as a compensation to kin of those killed or injured in the accidents in the area, he added.

According to Kashyap, the Union Health Minister assured him that his ministry was actively considering to set up the trauma centre in the area and a positive decision would be taken shortly. — PTI