Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, December 06 2010:
Health and Family Welfare Minister, Ph Parijat today inaugurated a Public Health Sub Centre at Mantak Kom village under Wabagai Assembly Constituency, Thoubal district.
The PHSC was constructed under the National Rural Health Mission.
Health and Family Welfare Minister, Pheiroijam Parijat, Additional Director, Directorate of Health Services (Planning and Finance) Dr L Surchandra, Chief Medical Officer, Thoubal District, Dr Naorem Achouba and Village Chief of Mantak Kom village, S Bingai Kom attended the inaugural function as chief guest and guests of honour respectively.
MLA, Wabagai Assembly Constituency, Dr Usham Deven was the president of the function.
In a speech, Ph Parijat compared the PHSC to a primary school in education.
The PHSC will provide first aid, vaccinations and other medical facilities to some extent to the villagers of Mantak.
There will be a nurse, a pharmacist, a malaria worker and two grade four employees in the PHSC.
Pregnant mothers of the village will get the benefit of regular medical checkups and free iron and folic acid tablets from the PHSC, he said.
He said that the PHSC will serve only as a first aid centre.
In case of illnesses and treatment, villagers should visit Community Health Centres or District Hospitals.
He also said that the responsibility for keeping the PHSC neat and clean lies with the villagers.
He assured the villagers that fencing and drainage works for the PHSC will be done next year.