Absence of blood bank pose threat to Tamenglong denizens
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 22 2013 :
While a husband continues to mourn untimely demise of his life partner, blamed on absence of blood transfusion facility at Tamenglong district hospital, the hospital authority expressed grave concern that lacking the essential component for a medical centre has been exposing the district denizens to great risk.
Speaking to the Sangai Express, 39-year old Meiniatpou Pamei of Dailong village in the district said his wife Rimthimliu Gonmei succumbed to excessive bleeding on June 18 this year after delivering a boy child due to complication of the womb.
Having delivered the couple's third male child at around 4.30 pm in Tamenglong district Hospital, Rimthimliu was in serious need for blood transfusion, informed the distraught husband expressing that in case the hospital had a blood bank for emergency situations his wife could have been saved.
Besides unfriendly terrain, most people in the district are economically weak thus unable to access better health care facilities, he said and strongly recommended atleast a blood transfusion centre at the district hospital to ensure that other citizens do not experience the agony of losing someone close and important to the family.
Meiniatpou also conveyed that among others, pregnant women in the district are most vulnerable to unwanted consequences which the Government could avert to a great extent if there is blood transfusion facility in the hospital.
When contacted the hospital's Chief Medical Officer Dr Chambo Gonmei conceded that absence of blood bank is a serious cause for concern for in emergency cases availability of blood is the deciding factor for one's survival.
Informing that the hospital inaugurated in 1995 is literally crumbling in pieces as no repairing or expansion work had taken place in the past many years, the CMO said minor repairing works are being carried out of the OPD and ward admission fees collected from the patients.
Despite lacking modern facilities about 70-80 patients come for availing OPD facilities on every working days, he said adding that the problems even include possessing cotton and other minor requirements.
The situation gets even more complicated as replacement for doctors or nurses transferred from the district hospital are not processed at the desired pace, Dr Chambo regretted.
It is also said that since inauguration of the hospital's new operation theatre in June this year 60 patients underwent surgical process for various ailments.