PHC Billyground gives nightmare to patients
N & M Correspondent
Billyground, Sept 30: The lone Primary Health Center of Billyground which is supposed to offer best possible treatment to public living in Panchayati to Basantipur region, is presently giving nightmares to patients.
After receiving complaints, when Andaman Sheekha team visited the PHC, it was found that the X-Ray Room is in horrible shape. It was found that water is seeping through the slabs during every spell of rain.
The X-Ray machine is covered with only a piece of cloth, despite of the fact that in PHC everybody knows that if even a single drop of water enters inside the X-Ray machine, the costly machine will go out of order.
Same is the condition of the Pathology laboratory of the PHC. No Blood screening machine or modern machineries is available in the PHC Billiground. Hence, patients of these areas are supposed to go Rangat or Mayabunder for Blood screening and this delay can be dangerous for their life, in future.
Years back when Andaman Sheekha had raised this issue, the DHS had provided screening machine to cool down people of Billyground but to their utter shock, a few days later it was shifted to CHC Rangt or DHC Mayabunder, making some pretence of necessity.
Further it has also reported that there is only one Cook in PHC Billyground and the single Cook alone faces so many problems. Even he has to work in the Public Holidays and even in necessity he does not get even a CL in proper time. There is no dresser in the PHC and the ward attendant is working as a dresser who is not present most of the time.
People also allege that some reputed officers of the Health Center have taken Hospital’s Cots and Beds in their Govt. Quarter.
Not only this Refrigerators & TVs of PHC are also taken away by the staffs of the PHC, alleged an islander of Billyground.
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