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October 3, 1998

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Reliance sets up hospital for victims of road accidents

Reliance Industries Limited on Thursday inaugurated a new, 82-bed state-of-the-art hospital at Lodhivali near Patalganga dedicated to providing free, round-the-clock trauma care, like stabilisation to accident victims on the accident prone Bombay-Pune highway.

This hospital has a fully equipped trauma care centre -- the only one of its kind between New Bombay and Pimpri-Chinchwad, outside Pune. It has also tied up with the National Highway Authority to provide Highway Police wireless service so as to provide quick response to accidents.

The hospital has two fully equipped ambulances to rush victims to the hospital with minimum time lapse after an accident.

The Bombay-Pune highway is the busiest in India and has one of the highest accident rates in the country, averaging about 1,000 casualties every year. Lack of adequate facilities in the stretch used to mean that many of the accidents resulted in fatalities. The Reliance hospital is expected to go a long way in reducing the number of fatalities by providing prompt trauma care.

The hospital is named after Dhirubai Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, India's largest private sector company.

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