{"id":230039,"date":"2023-12-06T00:55:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=230039"},"modified":"2023-12-06T00:55:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:25:25","slug":"union-seeks-doctor-for-riga-phc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/12\/06\/union-seeks-doctor-for-riga-phc\/","title":{"rendered":"Union seeks doctor for Riga PHC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RAGA, 5 Dec:<\/strong> Informing that the primary health centre (PHC) in Riga in East Siang district has been without a doctor since 30 July last year, the Magong-Banggo Students Union (MBSU) has appealed to the health &amp; family welfare minister to initiate step to ensure posting of a doctor to the PHC before the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a representation dated 4 December, addressed to the minister, the MBSU had informed that the Riga PHC is the lone health facility for around 6,000 people from villages like Riga, Pangkang-Kumku, Pangkang-Jorkong, Sitang and Parong, besides Pegging Bote town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Due to the absence of a doctor at Riga PHC, the public of Peging Bote town, Riga, Pangkang-Kumku, Pangkang-Jorkong, Sitang and Parong villages are facing a lot of problems since 30 July last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even for a minor operation, patients have to go to Yingkiong, Boleng, Aalo, Pasighat, etc, for treatment, resulting in extra financial burden on transportation, particularly during the rainy season,&#8221; the MBSU stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further, claiming &#8220;inaction by the ministry concerned despite repeated pleas from panchayat members, local MLA and students&#8217; union on the said issue,&#8221; the MBSU threatened to launch a series of democratic movements from the second week of January 2024 if its demand is not met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAGA, 5 Dec: Informing that the primary health centre (PHC) in Riga in East Siang district has been without a doctor since 30 July last year, the Magong-Banggo Students Union (MBSU) has appealed to the health &amp; family welfare minister to initiate step to ensure posting of a doctor to the PHC before the end [&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-230039","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\/230039","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=230039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}