A nurse treating a patient in candle light at the District Hospital Dimapur on February 18. (Photo Courtesy: Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee)
Dimapur, February 20 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh CongressCommittee (NPCC) on Monday criticised the ‘double engine sarkar’ of the NDPP-BJP, stating that it has ‘completely ignored’ health infrastructure and resources in the state of Nagaland.
In a press release on Monday, AICC Media Coordinator Sujata Paul and PCC Secretary Temjenyanger Longkumer cited a 2021 report of the ICMR - National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research and said that the state has 397 Sub-Centres, 56 Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs)-SCs, 126 Primary Health Centres (PHCs), 5 HWC-PHCs, 21 Community Health Centres and 11 District Hospitals, and one Tertiary Cancer Centre. However, “there is no Sub District Hospital. Tertiary Health Care Facilities data reveals zero Medical Colleges, zero State cancer institute in a state where Cancer patients continue to rise, zero Regional Cancer Care Centre and only one Tertiary Cancer Care Centre.”
Further, despite the state being covered under Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), there is no data for AB-PMJAY, “Because there are hardly any hospitals in Nagaland,” the release stated.
The release also stated that data for Ujjwala Gas connection is amply lucid in the data that says 24.9% of rural households have clean fuel for cooking. 345 of children between the ages of 12 to 23 months have not received immunization with Penta and hepatitis B vaccine, it also said.
In the case of the Dimapur District Hospital which caters to three districts of Chümoukedima, Niuland and Dimapur, the Congress party claimed that it has “visuals from February 18 from the hospital where nurses are treating patients in candle light.”
It further demanded that Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is currently visiting the State, Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio answer the people as to why Nagaland has been left in such a state.
