Rabindranath Biswas
Diglipur, Aug 06: The residents of Shibpur, Kalipur, Lamiya Bay and Durgapur of Diglipur Subdivision expressed their grievances in regard to health service and sought for opening up of a Primary Health Centre at Shibpur.
According to information, there are several reasons why the locals of Shibpur, Kalipur, Lamiya Bay and Durgapur want that the Administration take initiative to open up of a Primary Health Centre (PHC) reportedly preferably at Shibpur. They said that these villages are remote and far away from the sole Community Health Centre, Diglipur and in a medical emergency, they have to face a terrible ordeal, they rued. The core purpose of a Primary Health Centre is to provide accessible, comprehensive, and continuous care for common medical needs. It focuses on preventive care, health education, early diagnosis, and basic treatment while, on the other hand, to its contrary, there is merely a Sub-Centre at Shibpur which doesn’t meet the medical requirement in emergency for a population of these four villages, they lamented. In the event of non-availability of proper transportation means at night, the patient requiring immediate medical care has to face the wrath of this distressing and vexatious situation, they fumed. There are instances that patients from these outlying areas reportedly had to either compromise with health problems or to bite the dust, they said. Now they feel that the Administration should come forward with ingenuity and rescue these residents living off the beaten track from the quagmire of medical negligence thereby upgrading the existing Sub-Centre to a Primary Health Centre (PHC) reportedly preferably at centrally located Shibpur on a priority basis. Another Sub-Centre may also be opened in addition at a proper location in any of the four villages and which will prove to be a boon to them, they further urged.
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