Karnataka Lifesavers Bill gets President’s nod
First of its kind Bill in country have some special features
New Delhi, September 30: Finally, the much awaited Karnataka Lifesavers Bill, aimed at ensuring the legal protection to those who save the injured people and admit them to hospitals after accidents, got the nod from the President. With the President’s approval, Karnataka became the first state in the country to have such a Bill.
With the increase of deaths due to accidents in the country, Karnataka has become the first state to pass this kind of Bill in the country. This Bill was passed to ensure treatment to the injured person within a ‘Golden Hour’ (In medical term, the one hour after accident is called Golden Hour as the victim can be saved if the person gets treatment within this time period) after accident.
Earlier, the person who saved the victims or the person who admit the injured persons to the hospitals has to attend the police stations and courts and give statements. Now, the new Bill will put an end to such practices. Instead, the lifesavers will be given incentives for the service. If it is necessary to give statements in the courts, the government will be giving travelling allowance to the lifesavers from the Lifesavers Fund.
According to the new Bill, the lifesavers could leave the hospitals as soon as they admit the victims to the hospitals. All hospitals including private and government, should immediately provide first aid to the injured persons. The new Bill would ensure no harassment to the lifesavers, official sources said.
The officials have raised concerns over the increasing habits of recording the accidents in mobile phones instead of admitting the victims to the hospitals or taking care of them. In 2016, total 1,50,785 persons have lost their lives in 4,80,652 accidents. In 2015, 1,46,133 persons have lost their lives in 5,01,423 accident cases. In between these two years, Karnataka is one among five states where accidental deaths were more.
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NATO, others turn down US call for help in Hormuz: Trump
Washington (PTI): President Donald Trump on Tuesday said NATO and most of US' other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz as the war with Iran entered the third week.
In a social media post, Trump asserted that Iran’s military has been “decimated” and he no longer felt the need for assistance from NATO countries or anyone else.
Last week, Trump had sought help from European nations and others who depend on oil supplies transiting from the Hormuz Strait to safeguard the critical waterway.
“The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon,” the US President said in a post on Truth Social.
Iran's attacks on Gulf nations and its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil is transported, have sparked increasing concerns of a global energy crisis and are unnerving the world economy.
“I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one-way street — We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need,” Trump said.
He said Australia, Japan and South Korea too have turned down his call for help.
“Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military – Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again,” Trump said.
He said that given the scale of recent military successes, the US no longer "need" or desires assistance from NATO countries, adding that it never relied on such support in the first place.
Speaking as President of the United States, the "most powerful" country in the world, "we do not need" help from anyone, Trump said.
The West Asia conflict began on February 28 when the US-Israeli combine conducted airstrikes on Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, has effectively been shut following the US and Israel attack on Iran and Tehran's sweeping retaliation.
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had said that from Tehran's "perspective", the strait is "open". "It is only closed to Iran's enemies, to those who carried out unjust aggression against our country and to their allies.”
Earlier in the day, a second Indian-flagged LPG tanker, Nanda Devi, reached the country after safely sailing from the war-hit Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, the first ship, Shivalik, reached Mundra port in Gujarat.
As of now, 22 Indian vessels remain on the west side and two on the east side of the strait.
Indian authorities are in constant touch with all the relevant stakeholders in the region to secure the safe passage of the remaining ships, officials said.
