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. 2025 Jun 22;10(2):e001803.
doi: 10.1136/tsaco-2025-001803. eCollection 2025.

Trauma in India: current status and the path forward

Joses Dany James  1 , Srujan Lam Sharma  1 , Deepak Agrawal  2 , Ramana Rao  3 , Sanjeev Bhoi  4 , Tej Prakash Sinha  4 , Vignesh Kumar  5 , Amit Gupta  6 , Suresh Sangi  7 , Vijayan Purushothaman  8 , Sukria Nayak  1 , Mahesh Chand Misra  9 , Krishnan Raghavendran  10
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Trauma in India: current status and the path forward

Joses Dany James et al. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. .

Abstract

Trauma care in India has made significant progress in the past two decades. However, a coordinated and concerted effort has sometimes been lacking. Information on the various aspects of injury prevention, trauma education, and prehospital and in-hospital trauma care in India has been available in a fragmented manner so far. This comprehensive review aims to understand in detail and bring together the various facets of injury prevention and trauma care in India, including the efforts being put at various levels to tackle the problem. The article also includes a detailed SWOT analysis, assessing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and suggests strategies to overcome them.

Keywords: Geography; Health Care Quality, Access, And Evaluation; Healthcare disparities; Information Dissemination.

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Figure 1. (a) Trends in road accidents and fatalities from 2018 to 2022. (b) Accident severity among states and union territories. Courtesy: Road Accident in India Report, Ministry of Road Transport and Highway.
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Figure 2. (a) Utilization of existing healthcare resources to develop the Tamil Nadu Accident and Emergency Initiative (TAEI) under the Tamil Nadu Health Services Reform Program (TNHSRP). ER- Emergency Room (b) Initial deployment and promulgation of the TAEI program in Tamil Nadu. (c) Data suggestive of reduction in fatalities after initiation of the TAEI program. Picture courtesy: TNHSRP, TAEI and GVK-EMRI.
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Figure 3. SWOT analysis of trauma care in India. SWOT, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
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