SHILLONG:
Health Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh on Thursday sought a report on non-functional healthcare centres across the state.
This was after a delegation of the Hynñiewtrep Integrated Territorial Organization (HITO) of Ri Bhoi and Dorbar Shnong of Parila village sought her intervention to make MCH Hospital functional in the village by appointing manpower for the interest of the people of the area.
After the meeting, Lyngdoh told reporters that she will be conducting an inspection at Parila Health Facility on May 8.
Congress legislator Celestine Lyngdoh and Nongpoh legislator Mayralborn Syiem, who is the adviser to the Health Department, will also be present during the inspection.
“I hope I will be able to attend the important facility that has been used as a Covid ward and quarantine centre. So we will go and we will see and until that time I hope I will do all my homework before May 8,” she said.
The minister informed that there was some issue related to the staff and said, “I don’t know whether posts have been created and sanctioned or if interviews have been conducted. We will have to look at the HR allocation but with the NHM in place, I am sure we will be able to run it adequately. Let us wait and see what information I gather before the actual inspection.”
When asked, Lyngdoh said she will send a team of officials to inspect across the state and submit a report on non-functional health centres.
“I will take that report sometime in the first week of May and accordingly we will try to address the shortfalls and accordingly we will try to ensure that we upgrade or make all such facilities operational it is a humongous task as I have to go across the state to check these centres,” she said while adding, “So we will begin with Parila and we will see where we go next and I am determined to make difference and I will try my best. We must make sure that if facilities have been raised they should be operational.”
On the other hand, the minister maintained that she will ensure there is no politics in this sector and said, “… at the end of the day the health facilities of the state must conform to certain standards and I am a very willing minister to ensure there is no politics in this sector at least.”