- The major goal of setting up this eye camp is to educate these truck drivers about eye care and offer them various services
- Over 80,000 people perish in road accidents each year in India alone, which accounts for 13% of all fatalities worldwide
NE HEALTH BUREAU
GANDHINAGAR, JULY 19
The Rashtriya Raksha University and the Gandhinagar Police are jointly holding a free eye check-up camp for commercial truck drivers at Mota Chiloda Circle in Gandhinagar, Gujarat on Wednesday.
The camp will be held from 10:00 am to 01:00 pm at the Hospital of Om Landmark School, near Chiloda Circle, Mota Chiloda, says an RRU release.
“It has been observed that truck drivers frequently drive without eyeglasses due to their impaired vision, which could cause accidents. Consequently, on the advice of Bimal Patel, Vice-Chancellor of University, this eye check-up and BP and diabetes check-up camps has been held as a joint initiative of RRU and Gandhinagar Police in an effort to raise awareness among truck drivers about this issue and decrease accidents,” the statement added.
The major goal of setting up this eye camp is to educate these truck drivers about eye care and offer them various services like thorough eye exams, medical treatment, etc. that are either directly or indirectly beneficial to road safety and lowering the number of accidents.
Every person in the modern world now depends on roads and public transport. Everyone makes use of the roadways in some way. Despite the fact that the present transit system has shortened travel times, it has also raised the risk of fatalities. Each year, road accidents result in thousands of fatalities and millions of catastrophic injuries. Over 80,000 people perish in road accidents each year in India alone, which accounts for 13% of all fatalities worldwide. Usually, fatalities follow collisions involving trucks and two- or four-wheelers.
