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Discussion for improvement: The Tirunelveli district panchayat’s standing committee meeting on health in progress on Wednesday. TIRUNELVELI: Even as the State Government is providing every block with ambulance to rush the patients to the nearby hospital to save the ailing person, particularly pregnant women, a woman recently delivered a baby girl in a car while she was being rushed to the Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital after the Health personnel at Mukkoodal Primary Health Centre refused to admit her. When Madhavan of Kumarasamypuram under Pappakudi union took his wife Marish (28) to the Mukkoodal Primary Health Centre after she developed labour pain on May 1. Nurses and the medical officer, Rani, allegedly refused to admit her in the PHC and referred the case to Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital, saying that it was a “complicated pregnancy”. As the car was crossing Pettai on the outskirts of Tirunelveli on its way to TVMCH, Marish delivered her fourth baby, a girl, in the car. Then she was admitted to the medical college hospital for further treatment. Narrating the incident at a meeting of Tirunelveli District Panchayat’s standing committee on ‘health services’, chairperson of the committee, K.P. Kalyani, appealed to the top officials of Department of Health Services, who attended the meeting, to ensure better and timely medical assistance to the poor in remote areas of the district. The Deputy Director, Department of Health Services, Meera Maideen, said the medical officer concerned had been asked to explain the situation that forced her to refer the labour patient to the TVMCH. ‘Varumun Kaappom’ medical camps Dr. Meera Maideen said the ‘Varumun Kaappom’ medical camps being conducted in the district had found 38 women were suffering from cervical cancer and they had been referred to the TVMCH for further advanced medical assistance. He said the Health Department had disbursed Rs.5 crore as assistance during 2006–07 under the ‘Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy Maternity Assistance Scheme’. “This assistance went up to Rs.10 crore during 2007–08. We’ll be distributing Rs.2 crore to the beneficiaries through the village health nurses within the next 15 days,” Dr. Meera Maideen informed. When a member of the standing committee, Shanmugathaai, told the officials that doctors posted at most of the primary health centres did not turn up for duty in time and leave for their clinics even before noon, Dr. Meera Maideen assured that it would be checked. Infrastructure to be strengthenedIt was informed in the meeting that the State Government, which would be getting a whopping sum of Rs.600 crore, would utilise the amount for strengthening infrastructure facilities in Government hospitals and upgrade primary health centres with the objective of ensuring better health care to the rural poor.
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