{"id":140463,"date":"2020-10-24T01:08:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=140463"},"modified":"2020-10-24T01:08:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:38:46","slug":"focus-should-be-on-establishing-well-equipped-hospitals-libang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/10\/24\/focus-should-be-on-establishing-well-equipped-hospitals-libang\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus should be on establishing well-equipped hospitals: Libang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PAKKE-KESSANG, Oct 23:<\/strong> Health Minister Libang said that, instead of creating more sub-centres, PHCs, CHCs and district hospitals, the focus should be on &#8220;particular hospitals, as per the catchment area, and make it a full-fledged hospital with all kinds of facilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing a meeting with the health officials here on Friday, Libang said, &#8220;Infrastructure development is not enough; there should be proper manpower and equipment in a hospital to strengthen the health sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister sought feedback from the doctors and health workers to improve the health sector. &#8220;I am visiting hospitals and interacting with officials of various districts to know the ground reality of the health sector,&#8221; Libang said, and informed that, after collecting all the reports, he would &#8220;submit it to the cabinet for immediate action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding to a memorandum submitted by the public and the All Pakke-Kessang District Students&#8217; Union (APKDSU), Libang assured to extend all possible support to fulfill their demands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local MLA Biyuram Wahge said that, being a new district, Pakke-Kessang needs more infrastructure and manpower in all the departments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We believe that the representation submitted by the public and the student union to improve the health sector will definitely get some positive response on need base,&#8221; said Wahge, and added that a district hospital is &#8220;one of the most awaited projects of Pakke-Kessang.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a representation he submitted to the minister, district BJP president TN Tara sought upgrading of the Veo PHC to a CHC, creation of an ICDS project in Pizirang circle, posting of required doctors, etc. The APKDSU also demanded establishment of a district hospital, besides allocation of a junior specialist doctor and three ambulances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Libang also met with officials of the women &amp; child development department. He expressed concern over the poor infrastructure of the anganwadi centres and pre-school equipment, and assured to place the grievances before the government in the next cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among others, DC Gautam Hazarika and District Surveillance Officer Dr T Tok attended the meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Libang visited the CHC here. (PRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAKKE-KESSANG, Oct 23: Health Minister Libang said that, instead of creating more sub-centres, PHCs, CHCs and district hospitals, the focus should be on &#8220;particular hospitals, as per the catchment area, and make it a full-fledged hospital with all kinds of facilities.&#8221; Addressing a meeting with the health officials here on Friday, Libang said, &#8220;Infrastructure development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-140463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}