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11 years on, hospital building awaits completion at Adalach

SHABIR AHMAD. Dated: 6/17/2013 12:27:40 AM

PHC functions in a single rented room

SRINAGAR, June 16:The primary health center (PHC) Adalach in Pahalgam continues to function from a single rented room as the new building block, the work on which was started in 2003, is yet to be completed.
Locals rue the lack of health care facilities in the single roomed hospital.
The PHC according to locals was set up in the village in 2002 and started functioning in a single dark rented room. Since the 20 bedded new building block was sanctioned for the hospital in 2003 the work on which was started the same year. “The authorities at the time had assured us that the building will be completed in just three to four years but irony is that 11 years have passed the building is yet to be completed,” said the locals.
A local, Sajad Ahmad said, “Last time when we approached a local politician and the concerned health authorities they told us that the building will be completed in three to four months but more than eight months have passed since then but the building is still in the same position as it was that time.”
Another local said that the patients of the area have to visit the PHC Mattan or district hospital Anantnag even for treatment. “The PHC for over more than a decade is being run by a single BUMS doctor in a single dark room that too on the second floor. Even for a minor injury you have to visit PHC Mattan 10 kms away from the village,” he said.
When contacted, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Anantnag, Dr Nazir Ahmad Shadad, said that he does not have any idea about any PHC building awaiting completion in the said block. “I do not have any idea and even if there is any such building the shortage of funds might be the reason. I will personally look into it,” CMO said.