Call it apathy of the State Government. With a population of 4.75 lakhs, logardaga district has a district hospital of just 30 beds and if the number of patients being increased by any circumstance, denizens of the district had to suffer a lot from the lack of proper health facilities.
The district administration, in view of the acute problems facing by the people and to provide a better health care facility to the patients, started construction of a hall of 100 beds capacity in 2006-07. However, even after 6 years, the work is yet to finish. There were provision of X-ray, ultra sound and many other diagnostics facilities but the people are sent outside to carry out these checks up.
Sources said, the required posts for doctors in the hospital were 70 but only 50 doctors are serving now. Besides, five doctors are working in contract basis. As per the information, there are 73 sub health centres, 10 primary health centres and four social health centres in the district.Meanwhile, Civil surgeon Dr Sen Gupta claimed that the facilities are being increased for the better treatments and recently a heart check up centre was inaugurated.