TURA: At a time when the state government is talking about reforms in the healthcare sector and targeting high rate of institutional delivery, medical sub-centres in remote areas of Garo Hills are functioning with skeletal infrastructure.
The sub-centres do not even have labour rooms to facilitate institutional delivery. The situation is the worst in South Garo Hills district where road connectivity is extremely poor and villagers have to trek for miles carrying their sick family members just to get medical care. Take the case of Chokpot region in South Garo Hills that was for decades badly affected by militancy. To get medical care closer to the people, the government had established health sub-centres in clusters of villages so as to provide the basic health care to the needy.
One such health sub-centre is located in remote Kenigre village of Chokpot.
No institutional delivery cases have been conducted for close to six years because the health centre is operating from a severely dilapidated building with lack of any proper medical facilities.
