Nagaland health deptt in shambles: Cong

Congress continues to hit out at the ruling NDPP-BJP coalition on various alleged failures and on Monday AICC media coordinator Sujata Paul, described health department in Nagaland as being in shambles . She said when union home minister Amit Shah visits Nagaland on Monday, he should not talk of Jal Jeevan mission, road development and health sector.
Addressing media here at Congress Bhavan Monday, Sujata noted that according to the government data from 2021 ICMR report, National center for disease informatics and research showed the causes of the collapse of health system of Nagaland.
She also added that as per report details of Nagaland shared by NDPP-BJP , it showed that Nagaland has 397 SC, 56 HWC-SC’s, 126 PHCs, 5 HWC-PHCs, 21 CHCs, 11 DHs, one Tertiary cancer center and that the state is covered under Ayushman Bharat- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY). However she pointed out that there are no sub district hospital, medical colleges, regional cancer care center and no state cancer institute in a state where cancer continue to rise and in this regard the double engine Sarkar of NDPP-BJP instead reveals the ‘I don’t care’ attitude to the people.
Sujata also spoke about Covid 19 crisis when the government couldn’t provide proper medical facilities such as enough beds, oxygen cylinder and how the health system collapsed completely.This exposed the sorry state of affairs today.
She mentioned that 34% of children between the age of 12 to 23 months have not received immunization with Penta and Hepatitis B vaccine and that data for Ujjwala gas connection of 24.9 % of rural households have clean fuel for cooking, are amply lucid.
She pointed out that Dimapur, the financial capital of Nagaland has only one district hospital which caters to three districts, Chümoukedima, Niuland and Dimapur but rampant power cuts were causing hardship on doctors and nurses. Sujata shared a video clip from February 18, showing how nurses were treating patients using candle light.