Five years on, the building of the Sub-District Hospital at Mahore in Reasi District is still to be completed. The post of Gynecologist for the hospital was abolished owing to no theatre room for the deliveries. Owing to delay in completion of the new building of Sub-District Hospital, six posts of MD in Orthopedics, Anesthesia etc are also lying vacant. This is the sordid condition of Mahore, a backward area in Reasi district. Non-availability of proper medical care at proper time, distance and serious difficulty in reaching the hospital where medical aid is available especially for expectant mothers has become the cause of many unnatural deaths. People in the area are feeling dismayed on the negligence of authorities to provide at least the services of and expert gynecologist so that women who are forced to travel miles and miles on bumpy roads do not become exposed to fatal accidents. Further, for the population of more than 1.5 lakh in Mahore block, there is only one ambulance. Two ambulances have been sanctioned for the hospital but only one is functional.
This sordid picture of medical assistance in the backward area of Mahore speaks volumes of negligence of the authorities in the Department of Health. It is criminal to let expectant mothers die unnatural death at young age and bring misery to families concerned. Death of an expectant mother owing to non availability of a gynecologist is inconceivable in this century. It is a sign of utter backwardness and the Government cannot absolve itself of the responsibility of being the source of fatalities on this account.
Doctors in our state prefer to be posted close to the cities and towns and are not willing to render service in far-flung areas just because posting within the cities and towns is monetarily more lucrative for them. It is disappointing that the Department of Health has become helpless in reversing this trend among the doctors especially the young doctors who come out from medical colleges after obtaining degrees. There has to be a law, according to which freshly appointed doctors must render a specific period of service in remote and inaccessible areas to give them the feeling that the society that has spent so much on them does expect them to repay the debt by serving the people in far off places.
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