Nearly 50 lakh Indians die every year due to medical negligence. Therefore, experts have claimed that initiating a specialized course for doctors and hospital staff focusing on how a critically ill or injured patient should be handled might bring cut down the deaths by almost 50%. Last year, a study by the Harvard University showed that nearly 50 lakh deaths occur in India annually due to medical errors due to the lack of practical knowledge among the doctors to handle patients when brought to the hospital.
A transplant specialist and consultant at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the UK, Ajay Sharma stated that “The Acute Critical Care Course (ACCC), developed in the early 1980s in Europe, has come as a boon for medical institutions abroad, reducing the death rate of patients by nearly 10%, even in serious health complications including sepsis” . He added that “ The two-day…
