Pfutsero, April 11 (MExN): The Community Health Centre (CHC) in Pfutsero, Phek district, has been functioning “without adequate facilities to cater to the needs of the common people.” With the bulk of its patients mostly from less privileged sections (rural poor) “who can’t afford to go to good hospitals,” the patients are suffering “undue hardships due to non-availability of adequate amenities.” This has not just shaken the confidence of the people in the Department of Health and Family Welfare but created a situation of “mental torture” for the common people. This was informed in a public note by the Director of KALOS Society, Pfutsero, Kupelhi Losou, and the Coordinator of Red Cross Society, Pfutsero Sub-division, Vikhrutuo Lea.
Calling the attention of the authority concerned to the “substandard amenities” at the CHC, the two non government organisations stated that the CHC Pfutsero is located in one of the best places in a good environment at the heart of the district but its management and administration has fallen “far behind anticipation.”
They alleged that the CHC is functioning without adequate facilities like power supply, with patients having to remain in “total darkness” many a times. Renewable Energy (Solar Panels) facility which was installed is “not functional and there is no technician to look after it.”
Moreover, the two organisations informed, the CHC till date has “inadequate healthcare infrastructure” like beds, blankets etc. Expressing concern, they stated that “such basic needs” need to be “replaced or repaired.”
Even the sanitation and sewage systems are “unhygienic and remained patchy,” stated the Pfutsero units of the KALOS Society and Red Cross Society. “Toilets are not properly maintained. Such infrastructural amenities have to be revamped and renovated for healthy environment.”
Besides, they alleged that there is “shortage of First Aid” material, with patients finding it difficult to buy medicines, and the non availability of an ambulance at the CHC remains a “major setback.”
The Pfutsero units of the Kalos Society and the Red Cross Society questioned if all this is due to “the negligence of the concern authority” or due to the “non-endorsement of funds from the higher authority”?
To save the CHC Pfutsero, they called for its “constructive renovation” (Up gradation and Standardization with modernized infrastructural facilities) and logistical transformation.
They warned that this trend of “ineffective operation,” if regularised, will eventually give rise to “public outrage” and the authority concerned will be “solely responsible for it.”
The organisations also found it “difficult to comprehend” why the State/District Administration, Public Leaders and other NGOs have remained silent when the lives of the common people have been put in jeopardy?
