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Around 300000 annual lives lost annually to drowning, the Global Status Report on Drowning Prevention underscores the urgent need for coordinated action to address this preventable cause of death.

The George Institute for Global Health welcomes the recent announcement by Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Shri Nitin Gadkari regarding the "Cashless Treatment" scheme, which will provide government coverage of up to Rs 1.5 lakh for seven days of treatment for road accident victims.

A large trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine is adding to the debate for patients who have had a kind of brain bleeding called aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (aSAH). Although the randomised controlled trial found no major difference in clinical outcomes between a restrictive compared to a liberal transfusion strategy in critically ill patients following an aSAH, the authors emphasise the potential value of integrating these results with other research to provide a deeper understanding.