Healthcare, full-time SDO, road maintenance elude Phungyar
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Phungyar, August 27 2014:
Residents of Phungyar sub-divisional headquarters in Ukhrul district have expressed concern over the dereliction of duties by medical doctors of Primary Health Centre (PHC), non-functioning of SDO, poor condition of road and water scarcity in the areas.
In a recent visit to Phungyar sub-divisional headquarters, the denizens expressed their concern over the absence of PHC doctors and nurses at their station for the past three months and the hardships endured by the villagers during the present
monsoonal season.
For the surrounding 30 villages, the health centre has rendered unreliable as the three doctors and two nurses posted here have reportedly failed to attend to their duties for the last few months.
Interestingly, a retired male nurse is supervising the centre and attending to all sorts of seasonal health ailments.
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"For pregnancy and child delivery cases, beside other illnesses, the villagers have to take the trouble of going to Imphal," says an 80-year old K.Shimreingam.
For the past few months, the sub-divisional office has remained shut except for few days.
The reason, it was informed that, it could subscribe to non-posting of full time official in the headquarters.
In the absence of SDO, the locals said the staff has not reported for duty as was evident during the last visit to the office.
Members of the Oriental Club, a Phungyar based NGO, urge the State government to pay more attention to the headquarters, which has celebrated a Golden jubilee in 2010 and is one of the oldest centres in Manipur.
Residents, however, informed that the local legislator Victor Keishing has done whatever he could with his fund.
In the last two years, they cited, the MLA allotted judiciously to developmental works including TDC land development, retaining wall and office building construction of Khukok Long.
The region's premier government educational institute, Phungyar Higher Secondary School, has an impressive strength of 186 students and running its regular classes.
It, however, has no subject teachers for Hindi, Manipuri, Tangkhul and Home Science.
For the local residents, water scarcity has been another vexed woe.
With the NLCPR water supply project yet to be implemented, they are concerned that the headquarters need an alternative to solve the crisis.
The villagers also asked the State government for improvisation of the road from Shangshak to Phungyar.
In fact, the approach road is in deplorable condition, and has remained neglected after it was taken over by PWD from BRTF.