Saving Lives

Timely intervention during road accidents can be the difference between life and death. Learn how bystanders play a crucial role in saving lives and how the Good Samaritan Law empowers them.

Since its inception in 2008, Drishti Marine’s 450-plus strong force of lifeguards has saved approximately 7,700 lives from drowning off Goa’s coastline, claims its chairperson Rajiv Somani.

“Working for strangers and helping them is a part and parcel of this job and something that I love about it. But this was memorable because I could go beyond the scope of my job and help save the life of a child.”

Recently, Daman Collector Rakesh Minhas was hailed as a hero after he stopped his car on the roadside to administer emergency first aid to a person electrocuted by high-tension wires! #Respect #RealLifeHeroes #LeadingByExample

“I swam for 12 minutes, and as I neared the riverbed, I finally saw him. He was immobile, appeared lifeless, and I couldn’t find a pulse. I realised that he was going into cardiac arrest.”

In a viral video, the 30-year-old cop posted in Shivpur police station of Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh, was seen running with a bleeding man over his shoulder.

Named Polly and Shanu, these furry friends gifted life to their families, even as the horrible tragedy took thousands of others all around them

Fearing that the electric panel next to her flat would catch fire, she quickly alerted her own family. Her husband Girish rushed out with her four-year-old daughter, so did her mother and a friend who was living with them.

A truck rammed into Mihir’s motorcycle on Hajira Road on September 10. When the boy was rushed to Sunshine Global Hospitals, the doctors detected a clot in his brain. Two days later, he was declared brain-dead.

The mandal that usually spends over Rs 5 lakh for extravagant festivities like fancy lights, musical fountains, dhol-tasha troupes and music - has reduced it drastically to a mere 20 percent of the original cost.