Various ills plague health scenario in State: CAG

SHILLONG: Performance audit of health sector by the CAG has disclosed shortages in availability of required healthcare facilities such as PHCs and SCs, unavailability of essential drugs, lack of infrastructure in the health facilities, equipment lying unutilized and others in the State.
As per the CAG report for 2016, the equired infrastructural facilities which include
operation theatres, blood bank, water supply, telephone connections, and others were not found available in selected healthcare facilities.“In other cases, infrastructure was created but were lying unutilised for want of required personnel to operate them. Shortages in availability of required manpower, especially medical specialists was a serious impediment in the proper delivery of healthcare services”, the report said.