LUCKNOW, Sept. 7 -- Uttar Pradesh aims to develop UPTEN (Uttar Pradesh Trauma and Emergency Network) as an integrated emergency medical network in a bid to ensure patients receive treatment within the initial 60 minutes or Golden Hour after an accident or medical emergency. Additional chief secretary, Health, Amit Kumar Ghosh, said, "Through UPTEN, the scattered trauma, burn, cardiac, stroke and other emergency services across the state will be connected. Target is to develop 173 Integrated Trauma and Emergency Medicine Units. These will include 11 Level-1 Apex Hubs, 36 Level-2 Regional Centers and 126 Level-3 district-level units." To do this, focus will be on connecting hospitals, ambulances, trauma centers, doctors, paramedical staff, and command centers into a single emergency network. Ghosh said UPTEN aims to start treatment as soon as emergency information is received, rather than waiting for the patient to reach the hospital. About all 1,200 Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulances will be connected to the network. Ghosh said the target is to reduce emergency response time by 30% to 50%. At the same time, there is a plan to gain approximately 10 additional minutes for taking critical medical decisions before reaching the hospital. To achieve this, technologies such as real-time networking, digital alert systems, and AI-based triage have been proposed. htc...