Bihar: Govt Health Center Turned To Cow Shed; No Professional Visited The Area In Over A Year

Madhubani: As the nation battles the second wave of Covid-19, there are various reviews of hospitals working out of beds. Now, it perhaps surprising to know that in a village in Bihar, a governemnt run well being heart has been become a cow shelter after not a single well being official turned up for a complete 12 months.

During this wave, rural elements of India weren’t spared, Sukki village in Madhubani the place this well being heart is situated too has reported some instances. 

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“Not a doctor or a nurse has visited this health center in the last year. People go to Primary Health Centre in Khajauli”, a villager instructed ANI.

The authorities well being heart is getting used as cow shelter whilst Covid pandemic has hit the village. Villagers say that the Health centre has been a cow shelter for the previous 20 years, whereas the individuals go to non-public clinics for even minor of illnesses like a chilly. They mentioned that even when a well being camp is oraganized in centre individuals do not obtain any data relating to it. 

The individuals who contracted Covid are underneath house isolation and being handled at their very own expense.

“An Auxiliary Nurse & Midwife (ANM) is deputed for this centre but the ANM is currently posted at PHC Khajauli due to COVID19. This centre here has been running for more than 30 years,” a villager from Sukki, Khajauli instructed ANI.

It is worrying that the village with a inhabitants of 4 thousand does not have functioning healthcare heart particularly since Covid has discovered its option to rural elements of the nation. The individuals revealed that the inhabitants of the panchayat is about 9 thousand. 

PHC in-charge Jyotendra Narayan mentioned that ANM Manjula Kumari is deputed at Sukki Sub Health Center, however all sub well being heart companies are closed because of the Covid disaster. A sub-health heart is being operated in a rented home. The landlord might have saved his cattle inventory there. However, after listening to about media individuals within the space, a flex board of the sub-health heart was put up on one other home.