Attendance sheet signed up to Feb 30 !
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By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Jul 2: The attendance register of the staff of Community Health Centre (CHC), Awang Sekmai has been found signed up to February 30 although there are only 28 or 29 days in the month of February.
As a part of its ongoing inspection tours to health-care centres, a team of the People’s United Youth Alliance (PUYA) today inspected Singjamei Urban Health Centre, Khongham-pat PHC, Khurkhul PHC and Awang Sekmai CHC.
Speaking to the media, PUYA general secretary Longjam Abothe said indications of doctors, nurses and staff of CHC Awang Sekmai not doing their duties properly could be observed.
There are 16 doctors including four doctors on contract at the CHC. Out of them, only five doctors were found present today. Strangely, some doctors signed on the attendance register up to February 30.
Likewise, some other staff signed up to June 31 even though the month of June has only 30 days, Abothe said.
He said that they came across two attendance registers at CHC Awang Sekmai.
Even though there are 12 nurses at the CHC, only one doctor was found working in the OPD.
On scrutiny, it was discovered that the nurses have been working at other places while some others come but do not attend to their duties. There is not even a roster system for nurses, the PUYA general secretary said. Among all the doctors posted at CHC Awang Sekmai, one dentist and one lab technician never came to the health centre. Substitutes were found working in place of one ambulance driver and two grade-IV staff, he said.
Abothe said that the MO-in-charge of the CHC did not even know the number of doctors and nurses working at the CHC. The CHC has an X-Ray machine but it remains unused because there is no proper X-Ray room, he said. Saying that medicines which are in great demand are supplied in limited quantities while those which are seldom needed are supplied in abundant quantities, Abothe sought immediate attention of the authorities to the matter. He said that they found an acute shortage of nurses at both Khurkhul PHC and Khonghampat PHC.
Pointing out that many of the health centres do not have ECG facilities, he urged the authority concerned to look into the matter at the earliest.
IMPHAL, Jul 2: The attendance register of the staff of Community Health Centre (CHC), Awang Sekmai has been found signed up to February 30 although there are only 28 or 29 days in the month of February.
As a part of its ongoing inspection tours to health-care centres, a team of the People’s United Youth Alliance (PUYA) today inspected Singjamei Urban Health Centre, Khongham-pat PHC, Khurkhul PHC and Awang Sekmai CHC.
Speaking to the media, PUYA general secretary Longjam Abothe said indications of doctors, nurses and staff of CHC Awang Sekmai not doing their duties properly could be observed.
There are 16 doctors including four doctors on contract at the CHC. Out of them, only five doctors were found present today. Strangely, some doctors signed on the attendance register up to February 30.
Likewise, some other staff signed up to June 31 even though the month of June has only 30 days, Abothe said.
He said that they came across two attendance registers at CHC Awang Sekmai.
Even though there are 12 nurses at the CHC, only one doctor was found working in the OPD.
On scrutiny, it was discovered that the nurses have been working at other places while some others come but do not attend to their duties. There is not even a roster system for nurses, the PUYA general secretary said. Among all the doctors posted at CHC Awang Sekmai, one dentist and one lab technician never came to the health centre. Substitutes were found working in place of one ambulance driver and two grade-IV staff, he said.
Abothe said that the MO-in-charge of the CHC did not even know the number of doctors and nurses working at the CHC. The CHC has an X-Ray machine but it remains unused because there is no proper X-Ray room, he said. Saying that medicines which are in great demand are supplied in limited quantities while those which are seldom needed are supplied in abundant quantities, Abothe sought immediate attention of the authorities to the matter. He said that they found an acute shortage of nurses at both Khurkhul PHC and Khonghampat PHC.
Pointing out that many of the health centres do not have ECG facilities, he urged the authority concerned to look into the matter at the earliest.