CHC Moreh witnesses first child delivery
Source: The Sangai Express
Moreh, May 21 2014 :
Rate it as a feather in the cap or take it as a helplessness, doctors of CHC Moreh today helped a woman deliver a baby boy for the first time since its inception.
Ironically, the only Government medical facility of the border town does not have any equipment required for child delivery.
At around 10.25 am, a woman, who was rushed to the CHC in her advanced stage of pregnancy, braved all the inadequacies of the CHC and gave birth to a healthy baby boy weighing around 4.5 kg.
The doctors of the CHC could not advise the woman to shift to another hospital as she reached the CHC in a critical condition, instead they were compelled to help the woman deliver her baby at the CHC.
The entire operation was carried out under the supervision of MO in-charge Dr S Priyokumar.
According to a staff of the CHC, apart from administering OPV-O, the baby was vaccinated BCG and Hepatitis B-O vaccines.
He said that the Government medical facility does not have any equipment for child delivery.
Repeated requests have already been made to the authority concerned, however the CHC is yet to get these equipment, he said.
Saying that NRHM has asked the CHC to provide the facility of child delivery to the people of the area, he said and added that the CHC is being run without a single nurse.
In today's miraculous child delivery operation, Asha Facilitator and Ward Attendant of the CHC rendered their much needed service.
The woman was given all the entitled benefits under Government's scheme for delivering a child in the Government medical facility, the staff said and added that she was benefited with Rs 700, medicines and autorickshaw fare.