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Dr. Nguyen Duc Chinh works on the front lines of Asia's road safety crisis. As chief of the Septic Surgery Department at Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi, Dr. Nguyen knows first hand the effects road crashes have on victims, their families - and Vietnam's health care system.
"At our hospital, over the past five years, we've had about 33,000 trauma patients every year and among them, about 20,000 were due to traffic accidents," said Dr. Nguyen. "It's a huge problem in my country - the hospitals are very crowded."
A well-known road safety advocate, Dr. Nguyen has also seen the effect of successful road safety interventions. "Since 2007, we've had a new law that requires people to wear a helmet," he said. "As a result, the number of fatalities related to traffic was reduced about ten percent [from 2007 to 2008]. Also, the number of serious brain injuries has decreased."
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