Patients are facing problems due to want of Blood Bank in the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) here.
Blood is not arranged at right time for which patients are at the receiving end. Keeping this in view, steps are now taken to shift the blood bank from old hospital at Mangal Bazar to the new DHH building.
The local concerned denizens have submitted a memorandum to Health Minister Naba Kishore Da demanding improvement and modernisation of Blood Bank by shifting it to new DHH. The Blood Bank was set up in 1984 at the Government Hospital at Mangalbazar, Jharsuguda , which was inaugurated by the then Governor CM Poonacha.
The Blood Bank is not able to meet the blood requirements of patients for which demands are made for its modernisation. By employing modernised systems, the Blood Bank should be made total automatic, the memorandum to the Health Minister stated, urging to make all arrangements for collection and preservation of blood for a longer period. With this, as per new construction, a 100 bedded hospital with modern health amenities should be opened at old hospital at Mangal Bazar.
Former Chairman of Municipality Tapas Ray Chowdhury, District Bar Association president Sandip Awasthy, Senior Citizen Association president Arjun More, former Councillor PL Srivastava and other's have signed in the memorandum.
Health Minister Das in his reaction stated that steps were being taken to improve health service in the district keeping in view the increasing population and consequent health problems due to rapid industrialisation of Jharsuguda.
Das further stated that as shifting of blood bank from old Mangalbazar hospital to new DHH was time-taking, attention was given for blood collection and preservation in the new DHH and the Government is trying its best for providing best medical service to citizens of Jharsuguda district.