SHILLONG: Concerned about frequent instances of natural calamities, especially at a time when torrential downpour continues to lash the state, Health Minister, AL Hek, has underlined the need to bolster the state’s Community Health Centres (CHCs) and Primary Health Centres (PHCs) at the earliest to be able to respond to emergency situations.
“We need to strengthen our health facilities so that it can immediately respond to emergency cases,” he said.
It may be mentioned that the government has also formed a committee at both state-level and district-level to work out on the plan to give the health care facilities a boost.
On the spate of deaths in the state due to the landslides and floods, Hek asserted that the Health department along with the Revenue and Disaster Management department is doing an assessment of the loss of lives.
When asked if the government should rectify the construction activities in the state, the health minister recalled that there was a plan to set up a flood control management in Wahumkhrah River but the project could not take off since people were not willing to part away their land for the project.