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| Drugmulla people break silence | | Protest ailing healthcare | | Early Times Report
KUPWARA, June 9: The people of Drugmulla in North Kashmir's Kupwara district broke their silence over the ailing health care and callousness of the department after three months on Monday.
Early Times learnt from a reliable source that Public Health Center (PHC) of Waterkhana in Drugmulla area remains closed throughout the day whereas the locals had to move other nearby hospitals for treatment.
Sijad Ahmad of Waterkhana said that, "hospital is an important facilitating center which should have remained open 24X7 but, matter of the fact is patients from an area have to move from pillar to post for treatment whereas we were having our own PHC here."
State government is continuously claiming that health sector is booming in Kashmir but a public health center in an area of north Kashmir's Frontier district of Kupwara is locked from last three months which is putting a big question mark on government claim.
According to locals of an area that the health center is defunct from last three months and as a result the locals are suffering a lot.
"It remains closed almost every day. The center lacks basic facility of first aid. We had never seen it functional from last couple of months, we thought it has been shifted to somewhere else, but two days back we came to know that staff is doing private practices somewhere in the district, Mohammad Rafiq said.
The nurse Masarat Shaheen comes rarely in the center as the nurse is posted at the public health center Waterkhana, we don't know why she is absconding from the duty, as we came to know that she goes for night duty to Kupwara on Sunday. Locals said some few days back, a laborer was injured after being hit by a stone but he couldn't get first aid because the center was closed.
'1500 people are from Waterkhana and other adjoining areas that fall in the catchment area of the health center but health officials are in a deep slumber' said a local Nazir Ahmad.
Most of the time patients face a lot of discomfort since they have to travel all the way to Kupwara for treatment.
Resident of an area alleged that they have brought up this matter into the notice of Chief Medical Officer(CMO) Kupwara many times that, staff is remaining absent from their duties but no action has been taken so for due to which patients do suffer a lot. And know it seems that state health department is completely failed to pay any heed to the matter. |
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