<p class="title">Over 1,600 passengers died on board trains in the past three years, Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain said in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gohain said 1,678 on board fatalities were reported in the last three years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In all the cases, the bodies were handed over to the Government Railway Police (GRP) as per procedures and families were provided all possible assistance, the minister said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Supreme Court in 2006 had directed AIIMS to form a committee and recommend medical facilities to be provided in trains and stations for emergency medical care to passengers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It had also directed that oxygen cylinders be provided in all trains.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister said that all the recommendations of the committee have been implemented.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Under the directions of the committee as many as 88 life-saving equipment, medicines and injections are now be available on trains and at stations, replacing the basic first-aid box that is usually found on railway premises.</p>.<p class="bodytext">These include delivery kits, oxygen cylinders, laryngoscopes, catheters, syringes, tablets, splints, bandages of all shapes and sizes, ointments and even oxygen defibrillators, an official said.</p>
<p class="title">Over 1,600 passengers died on board trains in the past three years, Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain said in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gohain said 1,678 on board fatalities were reported in the last three years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In all the cases, the bodies were handed over to the Government Railway Police (GRP) as per procedures and families were provided all possible assistance, the minister said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Supreme Court in 2006 had directed AIIMS to form a committee and recommend medical facilities to be provided in trains and stations for emergency medical care to passengers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It had also directed that oxygen cylinders be provided in all trains.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister said that all the recommendations of the committee have been implemented.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Under the directions of the committee as many as 88 life-saving equipment, medicines and injections are now be available on trains and at stations, replacing the basic first-aid box that is usually found on railway premises.</p>.<p class="bodytext">These include delivery kits, oxygen cylinders, laryngoscopes, catheters, syringes, tablets, splints, bandages of all shapes and sizes, ointments and even oxygen defibrillators, an official said.</p>