Bihar: Govt Health Center Turned To Cow Shed; No Professional Visited The Area In Over A Year

The people in the village who contracted Covid are under home isolation and being treated at their own expense.

Madhubani: As the country battles the second wave of Covid-19, there are many reports of hospitals running out of beds. Now, it maybe shocking to know that in a village in Bihar, a governemnt run health center has been turned into a cow shelter after not a single health official turned up for a whole year.

During this wave, rural parts of India were not spared, Sukki village in Madhubani where this health center is located too has reported some cases. 

"Not a doctor or a nurse has visited this health center in the last year. People go to Primary Health Centre in Khajauli", a villager told ANI.

The government health center is being used as cow shelter even as Covid pandemic has hit the village. Villagers say that the Health centre has been a cow shelter for the past 20 years, whereas the people visit private clinics for even minor of ailments like a cold. They said that even if a health camp is oraganized in centre people don't receive any information regarding it. 

The people who contracted Covid are under home isolation and being treated at their own expense.

"An Auxiliary Nurse & Midwife (ANM) is deputed for this centre but the ANM is currently posted at PHC Khajauli due to COVID19. This centre here has been running for more than 30 years," a villager from Sukki, Khajauli told ANI.

It is worrying that the village with a population of four thousand doesn't have functioning healthcare center especially since Covid has found its way to rural parts of the country. The people revealed that the population of the panchayat is about 9 thousand. 

PHC in-charge Jyotendra Narayan said that ANM Manjula Kumari is deputed at Sukki Sub Health Center, but all sub health center services are closed due to the Covid crisis. A sub-health center is being operated in a rented house. The landlord may have kept his cattle stock there. However, after hearing about media persons in the area, a flex board of the sub-health center was put up on another house.