Regardless of being sanctioned over seven years in the past, the Major Well being Centre (PHC) at Malegaon village in Bidar taluk continues to function from three growing old school rooms of a authorities major faculty, missing its personal constructing and fighting substandard infrastructure, social activist Gurudas Amadalapada stated on Wednesday.
Established following a authorities order in April 2017 that relocated the Basavanagudi PHC from Bengaluru to Malegaon, the well being centre serves a inhabitants of over 5,000 within the village and likewise caters to surrounding areas like Amadalpad, Nandgaon, Kaplapur, and Rasalabad.
“On common, over 40 sufferers go to the centre each day.Nonetheless, it stays grossly under-equipped, with no emergency companies after 4 pm, and no primary services resembling bathrooms or clear ingesting water,” Amadalapada stated.
Based on villagers, pregnant ladies visiting the PHC are among the many worst affected, with no sanitation services obtainable. Urine checks are carried out underneath extremely unhygienic situations, as ladies are compelled to alleviate themselves within the open because of the lack of functioning bathrooms. Cleanliness in and across the centre is absent, and the premises are sometimes misused for unrelated public actions.
“This PHC exists solely symbolically,” stated Gurudas Amadalapada, a social activist from the area. “The MLA inaugurated it seven years in the past, but the promised constructing and important services are nonetheless a distant dream. Employees work underneath a leaking roof with uncovered iron rods. It’s harmful and inhumane.” Gurudas additional urged elected representatives to behave instantly and supply mandatory sources, together with an ambulance and medical workers.
At current, the centre operates with solely 4 workers members — a health care provider, pharmacist, medical assistant, and a Group D worker — all working in precarious situations.
Lakshmi Bavge, a ladies’s rights activist, questioned the dedication of native representatives towards ladies’s well being. “The place are ladies alleged to go for primary wants like bathrooms or checks? This isn’t simply neglect; it’s an absence of empathy,” she stated.
Narsamma S, a resident of Amadalpad, echoed these considerations: “Seven years have handed, and nonetheless, there aren’t any primary services on this hospital. It is a clear case of neglect towards rural and girls’s well being.”
Responding to the state of affairs, Karnataka’s Minister for Municipal Administration and Haj, Rahim Khan, stated that efforts are underway to assemble a devoted constructing for the PHC. “The PHC will probably be constructed as quickly as potential in Malegaon village,” he instructed HT.
District well being and household welfare officer Dr Dhyaneshwar Neeragudi confirmed {that a} grant was authorised for the PHC’s development final 12 months and that minister Rahim Khan has allotted funds from the Kalyana Karnataka Area Growth Board (KKRDB). “The tender course of is pending. As soon as the constructing is full, the centre will probably be absolutely geared up with mandatory services,” he added.
Shivashankar Kamashetti, govt engineer on the public works division, said that ₹3 crore has been sanctioned for the challenge and that development will start as soon as the tender is finalized.
