 My name is Dr. Jithu Radhakrishnan. I work for the Department of Emergency Medicine of KMC Mangalore. Today I would first start by thanking our entire police force headed by Dr. Anupam Agarwal for having such a wonderful event from 11th to 17th of this month along with KMC Mangalore headed by our dear Dean Dr. Bhunni, our Pro VC Dr. Dilip and our regional COO Mr. Sagar. The whole team has come together that is the police force and the KMC Mangalore have come together and had an excellent variety of program from 11th to 17th to create some awareness on Road Safety Week. This is nothing but we went on to the road, we had some stage program, we had some road shows we had some competitions, we had some awareness talks in all these 7 days and the response was really really good. This year marks the 35th year of the Road Safety Week celebrations or awareness week. 11th to 17th of every year of JAN it's been called the Road Safety Week. According to the data what we have more than 85,000 people die on Indian roads every year. Our idea is to reduce the amount of death, number of deaths happening because of the road safety by creating awareness about the road safety. And also educate people even if accident happens what to do and what not to do. Now KMC Mangalore has taken up this initiative of educating people not only on the 7 days but a series of events through which goes through the year right from the medical college right from the dental college, right from the physiotherapy college, right from the corporate building hospitals. We have many initiatives taken to prevent this road traffic accidents. I would like to elaborate few of those road safety awareness programs what we conduct every month. The first thing is the CPR program and the first aid in the pre-hospital care program. What we do here is we go to the public and we train them what has to be done and mainly what not to be done at the time of you know is an accident or a time of emergency so that we can save more lives and they reach the hospital in a safer you know better way rather than really you know non salvageable way. So far we have trained more than 10,000 people in this program only in Mangalore. The other unique program what we have is called the terribia clinic. Here what we do is we go to the school and get the kids trained, the kindergarten kids trained or get them used to the medical equipment and ambulance so that when an emergency strikes they call for help or they do not get scared because of the sound of the ambulance or they are looking at the medical equipment. This is a unique program so far we have gone through more than 1500 to 2000 cases. Then we have various awareness talks you know given by our consultants in various social media. Then we have various research programs to prevent these accidents done by our you know our students and our staffs so that how we can prevent these accidents and what is the most commonest cause of accidents in Indian roads. And one thing which I would like to highlight is there's an excellent study done by Roshan Nileya school. They have highlighted saying that we always think that okay you know drunken driving is the most commonest cause of accident. Actually the study says that drunken driving is not the most commonest cause. The most commonest cause is reckless driving, fast riding is the most commonest cause of accidents. Not wearing seat belts, not wearing you know helmet is killing people. This is what the study says now we know what we are supposed to do. Then we have something called first responder appreciation. Nowadays if you see an accident previously when we see an accident what happens we are really scared to go and approach them. What happens that we are worried about the police, we are worried about the hospitals, we are worried about the law. What happens if you respond and someone catches us and asks us various questions. Next day we will put send a police case so to prevent to cut that myth. So what we have done is when someone responds and rescue someone from the road and bring her to the hospital we will appreciate them by you know giving them a certificate, thank them by giving a certificate or a small first aid box and say thank you for helping us to saving lives. These are few initiatives which we have taken the whole of Mangalore campus has taken so that we can respond faster and save more lives. Now whatever we do whatever you know awareness program we create without your help nothing is going to be successful. So the request to all of us all the citizens is please please adhere to the road safety rules, wear seat belts, wear helmets, take precautions, start on time from home. That is one thing we have to keep in mind the discipline starts from home. If we are able to start on time from home that means if your work if your work starts at 8 a.m. in the 8 a.m. you please leave at least by 7 30 from home so that you don't speed up for your work and then you don't ride fast towards your work don't go fast at this time. Even if you are late to work please go slow so that you know you live the next day to know more longer and we can save more lives. End of the day the whole idea is to prevent loss of human lives, injury prevention, community engagement and promoting safe road practices. Thank you all have a nice day.