Tuensang, April 29 (MExN): The Chessore Area Public Forum (CAPF) has decried the condition of development in the Chessore area that consists of 21 villages, and is a hub between Zunheboto and Tuensang districts.
The CAPF bemoaned the “execrable condition” of primary health care in the area which is the only mainstream source of medical care for people of the area. The Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) has been allegedly “provisionally adjusted” in the doctors’ quarters, the CAPF informed today in a press release from its General Secretary Kiumukam Yinsoba, and Advisors Keyoungkhum Kamjimong and Beri T.
The “lackadaisical attitude” of the Nagaland State Government is visible from the fact that the PHC is not even being renovated, thereby “inflicting intense atrocities” on the citizens of Chessore, the Forum maintained.
But that is not all. Over the years, even medical officers have been found to be unavailable, the CAPF alleged, leading to citizens failing to undergo the right treatment at the right time. Often, the people have to hear excuses like medical staff being away on “study leave.” Thus, when diseases suddenly break out and sickness spreads, no intervention can be made by the State Government authorities, who are now held ‘solely responsible’ for the same.
The Forum also maintained that since the people of the Chessore area are extremely poor with limited access to education, supporting their livelihood through agriculture, they tend to panic during the sudden outbreak of diseases. With no doctor to even diagnose these diseases, people fail to take a rational decision and they are confronted with the constant possibility of losing their loved ones.
It may be recalled that in the last week of March and first week of April this year, panic had spread in Chessore area after three children died within a week due to the outbreak of an undiagnosed disease.
Meanwhile, the road conditions remain so pathetic that they are ‘motorable’ only during the summer season—that too by SUVs and other big cars. In the winter, the pothole condition becomes so acute that communication becomes “cumbersome” for the citizens of Chessore, who are then “abandoned in the middle of nowhere,” stated the CAPF. This leads to “losing faith” on the “incumbent State Government.”
Several organizations have informed official authorities of the problems many times through several forums, even the media, but no “sensible and rational” long-term action has been taken by the Nagaland State Government till date. Once again, thus, the CAPF has earnestly appealed to the “competent authority” to look into the matter immediately. Failure to take this would compel the Forum to take up “crucial drastic steps for the welfare of its area” and the Nagaland State Government will be held responsible for any unfortunate incidents during the course of this action.
