Moreh, Jul 24: The people of Moreh who were euphoric at the inauguration of Moreh Hospital have been disappointed as it is still unable to provide treatment facility of in-patients.

So far only OPD patients are treated here.

Only four doctors and a single nurse are manning the whole hospital.

Though inaugurated in January 28 this year, the Hospital still remains understaffed and ill equipped to fulfil its purpose.

Other than those four doctors and the nurse, there is no laboratory technician and no male health worker in the Hospital limiting its service to only OPD.

This was disclosed by the MO in-charge cum Superintendent of the Hospital Dr Y Mani during an exclusive talk with The Sangai Express.

Of the four doctors working there, is only one dental surgeon while the other three are all general physicians.

Even as six moths after the Hospital was inaugurated, it is still unable to treat a single person in the Hospital as its in-patient.

The minimum requirements for a hospital to enable itself to admit in-patients for treatment there are a gynaecologist, a physician and a surgeon, maintained Dr Mani.

Because of the shortage of staff, all the laboratory tools including the X-ray machine are left unused in the Hospital, he conveyed.

Even the OPD patients are forced to endure untold miseries due to the failure of the Hospital to take X-ray photographs there.

The impoverished people are constrained to expend Rs 180 for every X-ray photograph taken at the private centre, noted the MO.

So far, the Hospital has successfully cured many TB and malaria patients there, he claimed.

Following the commissioning of the Hospital, the CHC of Moreh was also shifted to Sugnu adding extra burden to the inefficient Hospital, Dr Mani observed.

The few doctors of the Hospital are also shouldering the responsibility of immunisation even though immunisation should be done by District Immunisation Officers (DIO).

The DIO of the Hospital Dr Lhumdin Mungthang of Churachandpur has not reported back after he went home many months back, he conveyed.

The people of Moreh and the surrounding villages lamented that they did not get any benefit from the Hospital even after six months of its establishment.

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