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State of neglect: Thullur PHC not in pink of health
The primary health centre at Thullur is unlikely to receive any facelift even after the AP Secretariat, the seat of power is located at a stone’s throw in Velgapudi. The PHC is crying for attention due to the lack of basic amenities like an ambulance and the other paraphernalia.
Amaravati: The primary health centre at Thullur is unlikely to receive any facelift even after the AP Secretariat, the seat of power is located at a stone’s throw in Velgapudi. The PHC is crying for attention due to the lack of basic amenities like an ambulance and the other paraphernalia.
It intends to extend services to over 50,000 people in capital villages. The people belonging to Thullur mandal gave up their land voluntarily for the capital, hoping for a better life. But the fate of the health centre proved to be the other way round.
The PHC covers 22 villages, including Abbarujupalem, Ainavolu, Ananthavaram, Lingayapalem, Dondapadu, Mandadam, Rayapudi, Velagapudi,Venkatapalem, Uddarayunipalem, Harichandrapuram, Peddaparimi and Vaddamanu with a status of six-bed hospital. On an average, 200 patients visit the hospital each day, mostly women in an advanced stage of pregnancy. A good number of patients are referred to Guntur Government General Hospital for want of equipment and adequate medical and paramedical staff.
The facilities available at the PHC are not adequate to perform caesarian operations and that the pregnant women are referred to GGH at Guntur. The pregnant women are left to fend for themselves in terms of transport in the absence of ambulance at the PHC. Patients complain that they were asked to depend on private transport in emergency.
The patients with poor economic background are left with no other alternative except for the PHC at Thullur even the rich and above middleclass sections seek treatment in the nearby corporate hospitals in Vijayawada, Guntur and Mangalagiri by engaging their personal transport. K Suresh, native of Lingayapalem, brought his grandfather who is suffering from dehydration to the PHC for treatment.
Speaking to The Hans India, Suresh expressed serious anguish over the PHC in a bad condition. The authorities of the health centre are facing a daunting task to handle the cases of mother and child under the state-sponsored Thalli Bidda scheme in the absence of an ambulance.
Though the PHC has blood test and eye test facilities, there is no scanning facility for the pregnant women. The doctors of the PHC are referring the pregnant women to nearby private labs for scanning.
The PHC will pay up the scanning charges to private labs under Prime Minister Suraksha Abhiyan on behalf of patients. Speaking to The Hans India, Dr M Ramadevi, DDO of Thullur PHC said, “We have already sent a proposal to the medical and health department for provision of ambulance and hoping against hope for its sanctioning.”
During emergency, it has become a tough task to save the patient who left to wait for the arrival of108 services or a ambulance from Tadikonda or Mangalagiri PHC centres. At least a 108 service should be made available at our PHC all the time so as to ensure timely treatment for trauma patients, she added.
The PHC at present has to contend with treatment of normal delivery cases and other general diseases, which don’t require superspeciality services, she said.Recently the state government has sanctioned funds to upgrade the PHC at Thullur for ugrading into a 30-bedded hospital and it is expected to become a reality within a year.
By:T Sudhakar
