Qatar- Experts share road safety plans
Date
5/12/2015 12:48:04 AM
(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Vision Zero Qatar-Sweden conference concluded yesterday with a wide range of road safety plans. The final day of the two-day conference featured PowerTalks on relevant topics about road safety and traffic medicine.
Dr Lars Englund, Chief Medical Officer of Road and Rail Department, Swedish Transport Agency and Chairman of ITMA (Sweden) discussed "The Concept of Traffic Medicine and the ITMA perspective."
He said that there are over four million people in the world dying due to car accidents, which is more than deaths due to infectious diseases such as malaria or heart disease. "Many countries are exposed to fatal traffic accidents, and in Sweden we try to get as much as possible to the best way for the safety of vehicles, as we would like to share this with Qatar," he added.
Dr Wafa Al Yazidi, Director of Medical Rehabilitation at Hamad Medical Corporation said that the traffic medicine is a field of medicine used in the developed countries but is not common in the Arab world. She announced that Doha would host the 24th International Traffic Medicine Association (ITMA) Congress in November this year. The event, she said, is global gathering of experts from different disciplines in the fields of medicine, traffic and roads.
Dr Ahmad Zarour, Senior Consultant at Trauma Department, Hamad Medical Corporation who presented "Trauma Department Statistics" said accident injuries are a big problem that affects more than five million people a year around the world and that 10 percent of these injuries may result to 10 percent of deaths around the world. In every five seconds one person dies because of serious road accidents, he said.
Speaking on the topic "Introduction to TrMC, Driving assessment for different patient populations," Dr Catarina Lundberg, Head of Traffic Medicine Centre (TrMC), Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden, discussed other aspects which affect driving such as eye diseases, ability to see in the dark, and other medical conditions such as shock diabetes. She stressed neurological problems may affect one's efficiency in driving.
Lieutenant Fahad Mubarak Al Abdulla from the Traffic Department at the Ministry of Interior presented his paper on "Crash Statistics in Qatar; Introduction to One Second National Road Safety Brand". He said that the Qatari strategic planning has achieved great success beyond the expectation that helped to considerably reduce the number of deaths and road accidents.
Other topics discussed were STRADA (Swedish Traffic Accident Data Acquisition), Emergency Services in Qatar, General Overview of Qatar: Qatar as a Fast Developing Country, Human centered traffic safety research, Simulator based research on driver assessment and adaptation evaluation, and Introduction to the National Traffic Safety Committee: A Snapshot of Road Safety in Qatar.
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