Mawkyrwat: Expressing dismay at the Wahkaji primary health centre remaining non-functional since its inauguration earlier this month, the United Democratic Party, Ranikor circle has demanded that the health department should open facility with immediate effect.
Health minister Roshan Warjri had inaugurated the facility on November 3.
“The director of the health services (medical institutions) should make the PHC functional immediately with doctors, nurses and other staff who should be there to help people at the centre,” UDP Ranikor circle president, GG Bung Snaitang, said.
“The health department should also make sure that water, electricity and other facilities be made available in the PHC,” he said.
Snaitang said the party leaders were surprised to find the PHC closed and the main gate locked during a visit to the centre on Saturday.
“People of the area informed us that the PHC was open only on the inauguration day and had remained closed since that day,” he said.
He also said that two women from the Umdohlun area came to the PHC along with their children looking for medicine on that day only to find the centre was closed.
Snaitang further said that UDP could not believe how the government had taken the people of the area for a ride. He further alleged that the inauguration of the PHC was done only to get support from the people in the Assembly elections next year.
