From Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi: In the remote North East where health care is hopelessly inadequate, the only primary health center at Borpansury in Mizoram’s Chakma inhabitated region bordering Bangladesh has been lying vacant for the past 20 years that too after spending nearly one crore rupees for its up gradation.
Bringing this to the new President’s notice the Mizoram Chakma Development Forum (MCDF) has written to Mr Pranab Mukherjee, seeking his intervention to open the PHC.
In a petition submitted to the President the Forum stated that lack of healthcare in the region is a cause of great difficulty, hardship and pain to the hundreds of tribals inhabiting the area.
Poor health service is compounded by bad road connectivity, forcing people to take a 10-hour mountain road to the state capital of Aizwal to seek medical help. After lying abandoned for 20 years, the government spent Rs 90,50,500 to rebuild the Borpansury primary health centre in 2010.
But since then, no doctors or any other medical staff have been appointed and the place is lying in a state of disuse.
“We are not demanding anything outlandish and only want an existing clinic to start operating,” it said in the memorandum to the President.
Due to lack of basic life-saving drugs and staff, many people, children, women, the aged and the poorest, die of preventable diseases every year, the front said. MCDF is a non-profit organization that works in areas of rights and empowerment issues.
