Guwahati: Hundreds of villages spread along Brahmaputra and the islands have not yet received a basic health care facility for an old health because it is inaccessible.
Repeated flood threats make them further.
Lakhimpur and Biswanath Regency in the northeastern part of Assam did not even have the right way to transport in an emergency case.
Pandemic is a great testing time for this region referring to once again on the fact that connectivity for basic services in education, health and important things is the need for hours.
When a village partner told Ruini Milli in the village of Saru Tamuli under Bortamuli Panchayat in Gohpur’s income circle in Biswanath that a boat clinic would soon come to their Sungai Island, he could not believe it.
But when floating medical facilities actually arrived on June 24 with a team of doctors and paramedics, he could not say.
“I’ve never seen a beautiful boat hospital.
It crosses Kharoi’s tributary from Brahmaputra and comes to our island.
The government’s health department cannot reach us.
We have been treated by a doctor, and they even take our samples for testing,” Ruini said , Health activists, Padmashree Dr.
H Sudarshan, and his team at Karuna Trust launched this facility along Brahmaputra on June 21 which included six administrative units of Biswanath and Lakhimpur.
The sophisticated boat clinic will serve around 1.17 lakh people who are along the Brahmaputra.
Nearly 70% of these populations consist of mishing tribes, traditional communities struggle for the basics such as education and health care.
Previously, villagers such as Ruini will cross the mighty river on small ships to seek medical assistance on the other side of the river.
He was very grateful to Sudarshan for providing health care in his village consisting of 800 people.
“We have to encourage pregnant women to come for their delivery at the boat clinic,” Ruini said.
The two-story clinic has a 1,600-sq ft floor room housing opd clinic, an inpatient treatment room with two beds and OT minor for dressing, sewing and attending medical emergencies.
The solar factory with a capacity of five kilowatts has been installed to provide uninterrupted power, it is important to run equipment such as oxygen concentrators, nebuliters, autoclave and semi-automatic analysis, said Anup Sarmah, Director, Ne, Karuna Trust.
“In the case of a serious patient, they were taken to a basic facility, Vivekananda Hospital, in the village of GaGaabari in Gohpur.
It has 10 placed bed facilities with a delivery room.
The medical team, including nurses, returned to the Pangkalan Hospital after the medical camp Throughout the day, “he said.
Dr.
Sanjib Choudhury, a senior medical officer of the project, who has worked in various governments and private hospitals in various countries since 1984, said this clinic has all primary and emergency health care facilities.
“This will certainly help provide modern health care to villages seized because of their geographical location and often floods,” he said.
Most of the river islands do not have basic infrastructure and services – from health care to education, power, roads, drinking water and sanitation.
Chars has one of the highest levels of infant and mother’s death in the state.
“With the absence of emergency medical services, it takes four to six hours for a patient from Char to reach the District Hospital,” Sarmah said.
Pranab Kumar Sarmah, DC from Biswanath, inaugurated a boat clinic on the occasion of International Yoga Day in the presence of Aditya Vikram Yadav, SDO, Gohpur, ensuring all possible support for efforts.
In ongoing vaccination drive, Biswanath administration is likely to send their vaccinators to remote villages at the boat clinic.
Karuna Trust is a pioneer in providing comprehensive primary health care services through public private partnership mode.
It manages 70 government primary health centers in six states.
The main threat of this river islands is a river, flood and erosion.
Achieving health care in such circumstances is impossible.
“Development of permanent infrastructure and health facilities is one of the main challenges on these islands because of flooding.
Boat clinics will also be used to provide rehabilitation and assistance services during natural disasters,” Sarmah said.