A proposal to make a provision that hospitals provide free treatment to accident victims, as part of emergency, in the first 48 hours with out demanding payment, is pending with the Telangana Government, Arogyasri former CEO Dr Chandrasekhar Said.
 

In his address at the Symposium on Neurotrauma held recently at NIMS here, Dr Chandrasekhar said Karnataka has already made such a provision and it would be first Indian state to offer Free Accident Treatment in the first 48-hours.
He expressed hope that Telangana government will also come forward with such provision.

The Symposium was jointly organized by Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Department of Neurosurgery, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences(NIMS, Hyderabad); Emergency Management and Research Institute (GVK-EMRI) and International Trauma Care Society ( Hyderabad City Branch). The Neurotrama care specialists observed that by 2020, the leading cause of disability, mortality in India is going to be Neurotrauma and the overall burden of trauma will increase exponentially and surpasses all the killer diseases.

NIMS former Director Prof Raja Reddy, one of the twenty Neurotrauma Scientists quoted in Wikipedia said traumatic brain injury alone has become a major public health problem around the world and more so in a developing countries like ours. In worldwide more than 50-60 million people sustain a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBIs) each year, and it is estimated that about half the world’s population will have one or more TBIs over their lifetime.

TBI is the leading cause of mortality in young adults and a major cause of death and disability across all ages in all countries, Prof Raja Reddy informed. Though we have 1 per cent of world vehicular population and account for 6 per cent Road Accidents in the world, which is very disturbing, the road traffic accidents rate of 35 per 1000 vehicles in India is one of the highest in the world, Prof Reddy said.