District Collector Dr Manish Ranjan has approved the proposal of health department to build primary health care centers in some non-scheduled area villages.
He has released a fund of Rs1 crore 2 lakhs 8 thousand for construction of PHCs at Kolhu, Tirla, Pachra and Pasandu.
After releasing the fund he has directed the civil surgeon to get the construction work completed within given time frame so that the villagers of these villages and adjoining areas can get health facilities at their nearest point.
For Kolhu PHC an amount of Rs25.81850 lakhs, for Tirla Rs25,353 lakh, for Pachra Rs25.486 lakh and for Pasandu Rs25.421 lakhs has been released. Besides this Rs 60 lakhs has also been released for Bankhero Primary Health Care center.
DC has directed the civil surgeon to build delivery house at Bankhero PHC and from the sanctioned amount necessary equipments and tools for this will be purchased. He said that when the rural women will get delivery facility at the PHC then they will not require traveling long distances. Today Dr. Ranjan has also issued directives for the forest officials to check illegal wood cutting going on in the forest areas of the district. Ranjan believes that reports are coming from different sources that illegal wood cutting mills are running in different areas where illegal wood is given shape. Ranjan has directed the officials to take strong action to curb this illegal business which is harming both the environment and the Government revenue.