n Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) Member Asim Amitabh Dash on Wednesday visited the Jagatsinghpur District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) and reviewed healthcare services.
He expressed unhappiness over the services and said the shortage of required number of doctors in the DHH is affecting the services.
Addressing mediapersons, he pointed out that as many as 30 doctor posts are lying vacant out of 56 sanctioned and said it seems to be quite inadequate. The DHH suffers from several deficiencies like shortage of clean drinking water in different wards, un-cleaned toilets, dumping of garbage and absence of many basic necessities.
Dash interacted with the DHH authorities and asked them to sort out the problems as soon as possible.
Earlier, the OHRC Member visited the Alipingala Sub-Jail and observed low-standard of food to inmates, shortage of drinking water, excess number of inmates and poor health services.
He interacted with the jail authorities and said that lack of various services for inmates violates human rights. He instructed the authorities to resolve the problems soon.
Besides, Dash held a meeting with the Collector and other district officials.