Mumbai blasts

[Dom Tuk]

I am amazed at the speed with which the Mumbai police have put on their website a list of casualties of this atrocity. Witnin 24 hrs of this carnage the website www.mumbaipolice.org have a list of all casualties, their age and present condition and the name and location of the hospital they are in. Compare this with the chaos and lack of information after the London bombings and you can see where all the progress is. Bravo and well done Bombay police.

[jake-the-peg]

Well actually it's a list of those so far identified rather than all casulties.

But it is good co-ordination of the hospitals.

[Loosehead]

Hi dom, another chance to knockthe Brit's eh, well done. Keep looking you don't want to miss another chance to make a totally meaningless comparison about 2 different events with 2 different administrations.

Move to Bombay if you find it so preferable.

[jake-the-peg]

Actually, thinking about it I think placing all the names on a public website would be in contravention of the Data Protection act over here.

I think most people would prefer to be told of something like this before all their friends and neighbours read it on a web site.

You can't knock their intentions and diligence though

[jno]

delays in Britain are usually to do with informing next of kin first. I think that's a more sensitive approach, though of course it's not the only possible one. And the British can indeed always find some reason for withholding information.

[Reenie29]

Also from what I remember about travelling by rail in India you have to provide your name and address and stuff before travelling and this seems to be kept in triplicate by the people booking the tickets - maybe that contributed??

[Dom Tuk]

loosehead...go and that to yourself why dont you. heres a meaningless comparison your face my harse.

[PhilBy]

It is a pity they couldn't of reacted as fast to the actual inccident ...... I found it rather distressing to watch the injured looking for a taxi to be taken to hospital as there was no emergency services in attendance! Which would you rather have done more quickly Dom Tuk, medical assistance or a name placed on a website?

[Dom Tuk]

Philby ofcourse the response times could have been better. From my understanding the rescue teams are badly organised with very little in way of equipment and resources and hence the general public had to contribute in a big way. This thread was not intended to be a anti british tirade from me. loosehead turned it that way. I was only pointing to a very giant progress (in what is a 3rd world country) in their ability to show such organisational capability on the web front (ie the police website). I suspected that british viewers would have been unaware of this remarkable progress and wished to enlighten. The issues surrounding data protection and thus lack of release of UK death/injury lists is another matter and i dont doubt its validity as a reason for lack of info after the London Bombings.

[Loosehead]

Trouble is Dom you've got form! You sit there licking your lips with delight at any chance to slag of the British.

Own up you didn't engage Brain when an apparent chance for anti British sentiment presented itself and just dived in with a load of horse sh1t. Now you are embarrased because of the points made above about the DPA and the need to notify next of kin before letting it out in the media.

Obviously too stubborn to admit you are wrong so you revert to primary school abuse.

[Dom Tuk]

Time to fold those flags Loosehead....keep it for 2010.

[sense4all]

Normally, I only look in this section and refrain from comment, as I do think views are very polarised at either end of the thought scale, not much love or common ground shared (or sought). However as my Hubby is a 'City boy' underground user, and travels extensively in India and the States too I am just going to say that I would prefer the softly,softly approach in the main. Some of the news coverage of 7-7 was in poor taste and did very little in the way of providing proven facts ,or information. I think I would like a more co-ordinated approach to be avaliable to the Authorites I would like to know that my Hubby was in Hospital A , Mortuary B etc but do I think that this info should be avaliable to the masses, remotely - actually probably not! I have friends and neighbours who have been affected by losing people in the case of 9-11 and caught up in the mayhem of 7-7 all have shared their thoughts on how to improve things with the relevent agencies. Things happen, we learn and evolve hopefully ,so that protocol improves in the event of a reoccurence.