Have taken up issue with directorate: CMO
Shopian : The patients at Watchi hamlet in South Kashmir’s Shopian continue to suffer as the health department has failed to deploy a doctor there for the last three months.
The people of Watchi told that New Type Primary Health Centre (NTPHC) Watchi is run by a Female Multi-Purpose Health worker (FMPHW) and authorities have failed to post a doctor there for three months now.
They said the sub centre in the area was upgraded to NTPHC a few years before and a new building was sanctioned which was inaugurated in January 2020, however, the government has failed in creating posts due to which NTPHC faces staff death from day 1.
The locals said that after hectic efforts a doctor was deployed there, however, with the cancelling of attachment orders of doctors and paramedical staff, all staff deployed here have joined duties at their original positions leaving NTPHC staff less.
They said that since then only immunisation is being done at the hospital and no patients’ visits to the hospital where an average footfall was 50 to 60 patients per day.
Ashiq Ahmad, a local resident said locals are suffering in absence of doctors and they are forced to visit other hospitals which is taking a toll of time and money as well.
He said currently only the immunization process is being carried out at the hospital.
“We have brought this issue in notice of higher ups several times but to no avail as repeated assurances have proved a hoax on ground,” he said.
They requested higher ups to look into the matter at an earliest so that they can heave a sigh of relief.
Meanwhile, Chief Medical Officer Shopian Dr Arshid Tak told KNO that this issue has been already brought into the notice of director and doctors will be posted very soon there—(KNO)
