'Children deprived of routine immunization'
Source: The Sangai Express
Thoubal, October 21 2014 :
The villagers of Saibol Joupi and surrounding villages under Khengjoi Sub-Division in Chandel District have reportedly faced acute medical problem and children have been deprived of routine immunization facilities due to unavailablity of medical staff at the Primary Health Sub-Centre for the last few years.
Speaking to media persons, Jamkholal Khongsai, chief of Saibol Joupi village said that the Primary Health Sub-Centre in the village has been lying unattended as there has been no staff since the transfer of an ANM, the only staff of the Sub-Centre, around two and half years back.
The village chief further said that for the last few years, the villagers of T Bollon, Joupi, H Hengcham, Nakong, Tm Dingpi, Tuikong, Tolbung, Hengshi and Hollenjang also do not get routine immunization of DPT, OPV, BCG, etc for their children due to unavailablity of medical staff at the Primary Health Sub-Centre.
For getting routine immunization and medical treatment, the villagers of these remote villages have to trek about 25 kilometers on foot to reach the nearest Primary Health Sub-Centre at Shehlon or have to walk 35 kilometers through deplorable road to Chakpikarong where the nearest Community Health Centre is located, said the village chief.
He also said that sometimes the villagers were getting benefits from free health camps organized by Assam Rifles/Army and District Health Society under National Rural Health Mission which were conducted just once in a year.
The village chief fervently appealed to the State Government and authority concerned to consider the plight of these remote villagers and send the requisite medical staff to Saibol Joupi Primary Health Sub-Centre at the earliest.