SHILLONG, MAR 31: The Jaintia Student Movement (JSM) has sought the immediate positing of additional manpower, including doctor and nurses, in the Public Health Centre at Lumshnong village, about 20 kilometers from the district headquarters.
The PHC in this remote village of East Jaintia hills district continues to face problem of shortage of manpower affecting the health delivering system to people of the area.
Seeking the intervention of the health minister AL Hek, JSM Narpuh Circle president Anthony Sumer said in a letter to the minister, “We demand the government to consider positing one more doctor and additional number of nurses in the PHC to ensure proper and efficient delivery of health service.”
According to Sumer, the PHC is handicapped and cannot function effectively because of shortage of manpower.
Informing that inspection was conducted by the PHC recently, Sumer said that at present only one doctor is attending to a large number of patients visiting the health centre thereby posing grave difficulties to the people of the areas.
Established in December 2010, the Lumshnong PHC is catering to the need of 14 villages with more than 18, 000 population.
Meanwhile, the JSM also said that there is insufficient number of quarters for medical staffs. “We therefore, demanded the construct of some more quarters in the PHC to mitigate the problems of the staffs posted in the PHC,” Sumer said.
Earlier in 2012, the Narpuh Circle of the Khasi Students Union (KSU) had also closed-down the Primary Health Centre at Lumshnong village as a mark of protest against the government failure to provide the necessary facilities, equipments and appointment of doctors.- By Our Reporter
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