Dimapur, Aug. 1 (EMN): The Konyak Union (KU) today appealed the state government with regard to the development of the District Hospital Mon (DHM) and listed out a four-point demand with regard to the progress of the district hospital.
A press release issued by the KU President, Manlip Konyak and General Secretary, Honang Konyak, said the Konyak Union had submitted a representation to the Minister of Health and Family Welfare on JUly 27 2018 in this regard.
Saying that their appeal is based on the maxim that “medicine knows no border’’ and therefore fervently appealed the ‘concern minister and the department to consider its plea with an explorative mindset and attitude whereby its noble form of health services could be rendered even beyond the state or the international border’.
It therefore demanded the government for the ‘execution of INR 1 crore under special state place’.
“The Konyak Union opines that the sanctioned amount of Rs. 1 crore which was exclusively earmarked under Special State Plan for procurement of equipment for
District Hospital Mon (DHM) should be duly executed in proper and thorough consultation with the Hospital Management Committee (HMC). Intensive caution should be taken so as to avoid any forms of anomalies and irregularities at the later stage,” the KU stated.
It also demanded the immediate installation of ICU for operation emergencies ‘in tune with the Indian Health Standard norms of ‘no operation without ICU’. Terming it as a necessity, the KU requested the concern department to pave a means out for installation of ICU service at DHM ‘so as to provide justice to health and life’.
With regard to the improve of the hospital to a 100 bedded institution, the Konyak Union expressed some aspiration ‘for inclusive development so as to attain its actual purposes in the service for the humanity’.
In this connection, the KU asked for ‘tutors for nursing school’ while saying that ‘in accordance to the norms that every 100 bedded hospital should have a nursing school. It stated that the department should ensure that the completed nursing school and hostel building should be accordingly manned with the ‘requisite and sufficient tutors and students.’
The Union also highlighted the requirement of an additional twenty-two doctors.
It stated that the DHM is being sustained with only eight doctors and therefore strongly asserted that ‘shifting into the 100 bedded new building would be illogical if the management is left to only eight doctors alone.
“Therefore, 22 doctors should be stationed at DHM so as to smoothly deliver health services to the deserving humanity,” the release stated,
Besides, the KU also highlighted the ‘requirement of sixty nurse at the hospital’.
Saying that ‘no hospital can function without sufficient nurses’, the union stated that present strength of nurses deployed will not be in a position to manage the 100 bedded hospital
“Therefore in accordance to the requirement list submitted, the department is expected to deploy about 60 nurses 9in total) for efficiently nursing the 100 bedded hospital,” the release stated.
The KU also demanded the absorption and sanction of casual workers at DHM while saying that the cauual workers play a vital role in the hospital management system.
In this regard, the Konyak Union appealed for the ‘absorption’ of 14 casual workers which “was appointed during MSF period and had further appealed for sanctioning 20 more additional posts for casual workers”.
The KU stated that ‘a notion’ of Mon district as remote had been upheld for a long time and alleged that ‘the state government policy makers had always considered such evil tagging through utmost absorption and accordingly, half-hearted plans or investments were formulated and allocated’.
Saying that the ‘consequences of such attitude had given birth to the state of stagnancy whereby the actual purposes and avenues were left un-absorbed, un-explored and unfurnished,’ the release stated that the Konyak Union “in its quest to shatter-off from such traditional tagging and misconceptions and to eventually upgrade the midset of all the concern policy makers” declared that Mon district is situated at a strategic/advantegous location/tri-junction bordering with Indian states, two district in Nagaland and also with Myanmar.
Therefore, the release stated that the Konyak Union “appeals before the competent authority to leap a step higher so as to felicitate in exploring out its zeal in the service and justice for human race”.
