PAKTIA (SW) – The dearth of health centers in remote areas of the Laja-Mangal district of Paktia creates difficulties for residents.
Residents of the Laja-Mangal district of Paktia say that the health centers of this district are built far away from residential areas and they face many problems while transferring patients, adding that they cannot take the patients on time.
Shingul, who brought his patient to the “Tushank” clinic in the Laja-Mangal district, says that there is neither medicine nor a specialist doctor in this clinic.
“In the spring when the sea water rises, and in the winter, when it snows the water freezes, the road is completely closed and we cannot take the patients to the hospitals on time. Sometimes people transfer their patients to the hospital by horse or on board”, she added.
Meanwhile, Mehraban, another resident of Laja-Mangal also says that most of the people live in the mountains and far from the district center, and due to the lack of ambulances in the clinics, they cannot take their urgent patients to the center or other clinics.
He says: “There is a clinic with only four rooms; we need a doctor and medicine. When we have very urgent patients who cannot be treated in the clinic, they die on the way while taking them to clinics. Two or three women have died on the way. We cannot reach Gardiz or Shahr-e-Naw Hospital. We need the road to be constructed, four more rooms for the clinic, and quality medicines.”
Meanwhile, officials of Paktia confirmed some of the health problems in Leja Mangal district and promised to solve them. Khair Mohammad Mansour, the director of Public Health of Paktia, says that with the support of the “EDA” Institute, the necessary medicines have been provided to all the health centers of this province, including the clinics of Laja Mangal.
According to him, 15 new health centers will be built in remote areas of Paktia shortly. “We have all kinds of clinics and hospitals including RH, CHC, DH, and BHC. We have a provincial hospital, a district clinic, a public clinic, a primary health center, a secondary center, and helping posts; but the ambulance is given only to RH, DH, and CHC hospitals. There are ambulances in RH, DH, and CHC hospitals and they provide enough services; But we are not allowed to provide ambulances for BHC clinics,” he added.
Laja-Mangal is one of the districts of Paktia and no significant work has been done in the health, education, and reconstruction sectors in this district in the past 20 years.
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