AGARTALA, June 13 (TIWN): Health care facility in the interiors of Tripura has come to a halt. Health treatments are now only limited to a scale “for the name-sake”. Day after day where the state is facing the threat of major life taking diseases, it is witnessed that the state health department is no way bothered about saving the life of the people, residing in the interiors of the state or providing them the facility of preliminary treatment for the prevention of diseases.

Making tall claims and fooling around the people by constructing the huge building, after wasting the public funds is the only left over duty to the state government. To our surprise; only one doctor is running the services at a PHC under Dhallai district and the authority is least concerned to take any action.

The aim of providing quality care to the common man has got severely hit by acute shortage of doctors and specialists at Birashi Mile Primary Health Centre (PHC) under Dhallai District. The hospital has only 1 doctor assigned for three different shifts of morning, evening, and night.

The Primary Health centre is running on the basis of only one doctor, who is solely responsible for doing all kind of medical treatments as there is no specialist appointed for any kind of diseases.

And even if there are any doctor assigned as specialist they are not available in the Primary Health centre as they are busy in treating patient at their private chambers, alleged a patient in the hospital.

Lacking a comprehensive medical study regarding any medical treatment may lead to complications for the patients and sometime also to death also. Sometime during any emergency no proper medical attention is provided to the patient as there are no equipments and no medical biography of the doctors to treat a particular medical problem.

Moreover, there is no assured time when the doctors will arrive in the PHC; resulting the patients to wait in the hospital for long hours in the premises of the Primary Heath Centre.

Allegedly, the situation at the existing Primary health centre is chaotic as the villages in the interior part of the state is promptly hit by various diseases like Malaria, Diarrhea, Japanese encephalitis and others, but the State health department is busy in making the tall claims rather than developing the health care facilities for improving the health condition of the people.

A patient family alleged that "It will require more specialist doctors to run the PHC 24x7 apart from technicians for handling equipment which have not been made available as yet in the PHC”.

Now, question arises how can a PHC run only on the basis of one doctors? It seems that the health care facility will take the shape of a joke in the coming days.