BAITADI, MAR 08 -

Despite the government pledged to make medicine available in every village, health posts and sub-health posts in remote VDCs of Baitadi have been reeling under the shortage of vital drug.

The medicine crisis has affected thousands of patients. Those needy have been forced to pay high price for medicine visiting the health institutions walking hours of distance.

Rise in temperature has aggravated the situation further as more patients are falling sick.

While some patients complain that they could not get medicine even after reaching the faraway health institutions, others say they are buying drug at exorbitant price.

Baldev Saud of Bhumiraj said local people have left visiting health posts after they could not get medicine despite walking six hours of distance. Some locals of Bhumiraj have been going to Bithad and Bhatana VDCs to buy overpriced medicine, he said.

The situation is Kotila and Malladehi, neighourning villages of Bhumiraj, is not different.

Apart from medicine shortage, the absence of health workers at health posts has increased the trouble of villagers further.

A local of Malladehi, Tek Bahadur Bam, said health workers are irregular at the health post in his village. “At times the health remain close for weeks.”

Rudreshwor, Kopateshwor, Nawadeu and some other VDCs bordering Darchula district have similar tale. Local residents said sub-health posts here have been running out of medicine and even shortage of health workers.

When RSS brought the plight of these VDCs before the health authority, Dr. Surya Prasad Bhusal, District Health Officer of Baitadi, claimed that medicine and health workers have been dispatched to the VDCs.

According to Binod Kunwar, assistant health worker of Hath-based Health Post, the state has announced to provide 22 and 35 types of medicine to sub-health posts and health posts respectively. “But this has not been implemented in Baitadi,” he said.

The health authority here hasn’t been able to meet the demand of medicine, he said, he added.

Posted on: 2010-03-08 09:15

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