Motorway Police introduces another amazing initiative
Negligent driving and literacy, main causes of Highway accidents, says NH&MP Chief
Staff Report

ISLAMABAD—Inspector General of National Highways and Motorways Police Mr. Raffat Pasha has said that the negligent driving and illiteracy of traffic discipline were the main causes of highway accidents in Pakistan and more than 16,500 lives are in road accidents annually, countrywide.
Speaking at the Emergency Life Support Skills Course for the personnel of National Highways and Motorway Police, here at Pakistan Institute of Medical Science (PIMS) on Tuesday the NH&MP Chief said that the situation in Pakistan was however better if drawn a comparison with the neighboring countries. He however observed that there was still enough room available to make some serious efforts to bring about visible attitudinal changes and to make road users more responsible, coupled with stress on education and awareness backed strict enforcement. He said that NH&MP was also working closely on the issues of road safety and it has done a great job in the direction of traffic management, accident reduction, accident handling and educating the masses. “The desired Zero Accident Policy cannot be achieved until the culture of safe driving is promoted across the country”, he asserted.
NH&MP Chief stated that on completion of 10 years of dedicated service, National Highways and Motorway Police chalked out numerous Road Safety Programs to achieve excellence in this direction. He said that to provide timely and efficient First Aid service to the victims of road accidents, NH&MP has been taking a variety of initiatives including setting of a mini Trauma Centre at Kamra from its own resources while efforts were being made to establish a state-of-the-art and fully equipped Trauma Centre at Chakri and Bhera. He expressed his hope that these Trauma Centers would play vital role in saving precious lives in case of accidents. He expressed that these steps would bring in a revolution in the field of Road Safety and the rate of causalities in the road accidents would tumble down to the maximum. “Our officers are fully trained to handle any kind of accident. However refresher courses are very vital. We are very thankful to PIMS authorities for making special arrangements on giving Trauma handling training courses to our officers to make them capable of efficient and proper handling of accidents,” asserted Pasha.
It may be mentioned here that NH&MP has sent around 4000 field officer to get this special Trauma Handling courses. These officers would be comprehensively trained to provide accurate and rapid first aid service and Trauma assistance to the victims of road accidents. The general public as termed this initiative as a spectacular and far sighted step on part of the top leadership of NH&MP. It is expected that through such steps, NH&MP would gain immense success in saving human lives during road accidents.