Scarcity of health services perturbs Chinarto dwellers

TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): Residents of Charchino district in central Uruzgan province complain about lack of health services and ask the government to pay more attention in this regard.

Charchino district is situated in 75 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital of Tirinkot city. The residents of this district complain about the shortages of health services.

They claim that there is only one health centre in the district which has only ten beds for patients and provides limited services which do not respond to the needs of the residents.

Javaid, a resident of the district, said doctors in the hospital prescribed limited medicines to each patient because the clinic lacked resources.

He said: “The hospital has only two or three types of medicines for every emergency patient.”

Saifullah, another resident of Charchino, said the road to Tirinkot was rough and long and the people were in bad economic situation.

“That is why all patients visit the district hospital for treatment, but they get lousy health services.”

Resident Mohammad Esa asked the government to consider problems people faced in the absence of proper health facilities.

He said the road to Tirinkot was bumpy and long and patients often died on the way to hospital in Tirinkot.

Local officials admit the problems and assure they would address them with the help of other humanitarian organizations.

The spokesman for the governor, Mullah Agha Wali Enam, told Pawjhok Afghan News: “In meetings with officials of humanitarian organizations, the local officials had shared the issue several times to provide the locals with good health services.”

According to statistics, the current population of Uruzgan province is estimated over 1.3 million, but the province gets resources for health services equivalent to less than a third of the population, putting pressure on the health centres.

Earlier, the residents of eastern Kunar province made similar complaints about the scarcity of health services compared to the number of people residing in the province.

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