Shamator, May 15 (MExN): The Yimchungrü Akherü Arihako (YAA) today declared its strong endorsement to the demand for “immediate deployment” of all the required workforce and facilities at Shamator Community Health Centre (CHC).
In a joint representation to the Department of Health & Family Welfare (DOHFW) on May 12, civil society organisations of Shamator including the Shamator Town Public Forum, Shamator Town Students' Union, Yimchungberü Arihako Shamator Area and Chamber of Commerce set a 14-day deadline to deploy adequate workforce and facilities at Shamator CHC.
It is quite disheartening that those at the helm of affairs have outrightly ignored constitutionally-guaranteed ‘right to live’ despite repeated pleas, stated a press release from YAA President Achung Jangleh and General Secretary Donan S Yimchunger.
With the resurgence of second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, the public is in “helter-skelter where thousands of lives are now left at nature’s mercy,” it said.
The YAA further pointed out that the Shamator CHC was upgraded from PHC in 2014 to give better health amenities for the people of the region.
“Yet no visible upgradation can be seen as the lone CHC for the entire sub-division is haphazardly functioning with just few nurses and fourth graded employees,” it maintained.
The YAA further noted that Shamator CSOs’ recounting the lost of five lives “during the recent transfer and postings of Medical Officer at Shamator has raised one’s eyebrows and termed it as sheer negligence and unfair treatment meted out by the State Government.
The apex Yimchungrü body, however, expressed hope that the State Government would initiate necessary remedial measures without any delay to thwart the recurrence of similar incidence and ensure that “other forms for demands of rights will not be required.”
Meanwhile, the YAA further stated that it is a matter of “great concern that many health centres in Yimchungrü’s jurisdiction exist without any proper health amenities and health workers.”
Accordingly, the government of the day should ensure that all health centres including the village sub-centers, HWC/PHC/CHC are functional with requisite staff and medicine especially during this pandemic period, it said.
This would ease the burden of the people living in rural areas for medical attention at home who otherwise, have to take redundant risks of contacting other contagious infections treating in towns/cities besides incurring additional monetary losses, it added.
With COVID-19 positive cases rising exponentially, the state government is expected to gear-up and equipped health sectors and other related agencies to contain the spread of COVID-19 lest the situation blown out of proportion, the YAA further stated.
