Rabindranath Biswas
Diglipur, Aug 01: The Health & Wellness Centre, Radhanagar is plagued with dire shortage of technical staffs and a regular Safai Karmachari. According to information, Health & Wellness Centre, Radhanagar is besieged with problems owing to non-availability of technical staffs and a regular Safai Karmachari.
Talking to Andaman Sheekha Daily, the Pradhan Gram Panchayat Radhanagar, Diglipur Mrs. Nilima Samadder said that there is an X-Ray machine but no man to operate, there is a lab but no staff to test blood, urine and other tests at the Health & Wellness Centre, Radhanagar. In fact, the X-Ray machine was shifted from the PHC and it was sent back to Health & Wellness Centre, R/Nagar only yesterday. However, installation of this X-Ray machine is of no use as there is no technical staff to operate it, the Pradhan further said.
People have to go to CHC, Diglipur for blood test, and in the process they have to spend the entire day for this blood test; moreover the travelling expenditure is also heavy for indigent people, the Pradhan said. “Had a Lab technician been here in this PHC, the patients would have been benefited; especially those patients who need regular blood tests, now they have to run to CHC Diglipur for these tests which are quite hazardous,” the Pradhan said.
However, when Andaman Sheekha Daily posed questions to the CMO (i/c), CHC, Diglipur on the matter, the senior Health Officer said that the X-Ray machine which was shifted from Health & Wellness Centre, Radhanagar to CHC, Diglipur during an emergency has been sent back and installed at Health & Wellness Centre, Radhanagar yesterday.
And as far as blood tests are concerned, the CMO said that his staff regularly visits Health & Wellness Centre, Radhanagar twice a week for collecting blood samples and tests reports are furnished after tests at CHC, Diglipur, and this is the practice in place for many years in absence of a lab technician, he disclosed.
Apart from these shortcomings, the Health & Wellness Centre, Radhanagar is short of a regular Safai Karmachari; there is a woman Safai Karmachari posted on temporary basis and she is too old to perform her duty properly, the Pradhan claimed.
She also disclosed that she has been fighting long for the shortage of required staffs in this Health & Wellness Centre who sent letters after letters and communicated to the respective higher authorities several times in this regard, but all in vain, her requests fell into deaf ears so far, she alleged.
Now, what is the need of the hour is immediate posting of a Lab Technician to test blood, urine, sugar and other tests, an operator for X-Ray machine and a regular Safai Karmachari in the Health & Wellness Centre, Radhanagar she demanded.
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