The High Court has directed the government to take necessary steps for providing emergency medical services to road accident victims at all government and private hospitals across the country.
The HC bench of Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Md Iqbal Kabir on Wednesday came up with the order, responding to a writ petition.
Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust and Syed Saifuddin Kamal, a social entrepreneur, filed the petition seeking an HC order on the government to ensure emergency medical services to injured people at all hospitals and clinics across the country.
The HC also issued a rule for four weeks asking why the failure to ensure emergency medical services to critically injured people by both the government and private hospitals, and clinics should not be declared illegal.
Secretaries for health, road transport and bridges, director general of directorate of health services, the inspector general of police and the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council have been made respondents to the rule.
The HC also ordered the government to submit a report on the progress of the process under the National Road Safety Strategic Action Plan 2014-2016 in three months.
The court ordered measures to create public awareness on post-crash care and treatment of road accident victims through the print and electronic media.
