The BJP staged a rally in Jhasuguda demanding to run the old District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) building, now lying defunct at Mangal Bazar, as an urban CHC with arrangements for 50 beds and round –the- clock ambulance service.
State Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha president Tankodhar Tripathi and former MLA of Brajrajnagar Radharani Panda said that due to suspension of all health services in the old DHH after shifting of the hospital to a distant place, the residents were facing untold miseries.
Tripathi along with party workers Purusottam Thirani, Netajee Pattnaik, Sunil Panda, Balvinder Singh, Shlok Sarna, Nilambar Dansena, Rajesh Dash and Vikash Nankani were in the protest rally.