No doctor in PHC Bijbehara for over 2 weeks

ESS AHMAD. Dated: 5/19/2018 7:27:35 PM

BIJBEHARA, May 18: While the authorities are busy laying foundation stones of new health centres across the valley, the rural health care facilities in Bijbehara, chief minister’s home constituency not only remain devoid of basic facilities but are running short of medics and Para-medics.
Primary Health Centre Khoshroi Kalan, 7 kms from Bijbehara town, remains an epitome of poor healthcare system.
Though the ten-bedded hospital has a huge building block, equipments and even the residential quarters available for the staff but the non-availability of doctors has virtually rendered the hospital defunct. The hospital, according to local residents, is without any doctor for last over a couple of weeks. "The hospital has three posts of doctors but from last eighteen days there is not a single doctor available. A local pharmacist and few para-medics are running the hospital," locals said.
They said that the authorities have deputed one of the doctors posted in the hospital outside for training while a lady doctor has been deployed at SDH Bijbehara. Third doctor, they said, has also been selected for some course and is not attending to duties since his selection. "These doctors had been sent to the hospital only after a local sarpanch had locked it some two years ago. But now the authorities have again handed over the healthcare facilities to few para-medics," said a local.
The hospital, locals alleged, does not serve any purpose for which it had been upgraded. "Crores of rupees were spent on the new building block of the hospital and even the residential quarters for staff were also constructed. But authorities failed to make the facility functional round the clock," locals said.
"Few days back a girl from a nearby school was taken to the hospital. The girl had fainted in school but there was no doctor available to examine her. During night hours we have to visit SDH Bijbehara in case of any health emergency as the hospital here remains shut," the locals said.
No top official of the health department picked up calls for their version.

 

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