Good Samaritan
In its judgement 30th March 2016 Supreme Court has issued directions to all states regarding Good Samaritan Guidelines making the procedure simple and encouraging for those who wished to helpthe accident victims. The NGO found that the guidelines were not followed by the Health and the Police Department. Muskaan has built up an advocacy to ensure the execution of the Good Samaritan Law through the Home and Police department. As a member of the important committees, Muskaan made consistent representations to the High Power Committee and State Road Safety Council Rajasthan to generate awareness about the Guidelines. As a result the Home Department, Government of Rajasthan issued a notification dated April 22nd 2019 to the Health Department, Rajasthan. We followed it up with the Directorate of Health which called a meeting of private hospitals of Jaipur to follow the Good Samaritan Guidelines. Follow up with Additional Director General of Police (Traffic) Rajasthan resulted in issuing of a circular to the Deputy Commissioners of Commissionerates of Jaipur and Jodhpur and the Superintendents of Police of all the districts of Rajasthan directing them to follow the supreme court guidelines for Good Samaritan. We are continuing awareness generation about this in other states too.