SUNABEDA PLATEAU WHERE HEALTHCARE ‘NONEXISTENT’

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SUNABEDA PLATEAU WHERE HEALTHCARE ‘NONEXISTENT’

Sunday, 14 December 2014 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA | in Bhubaneswar
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Turmila Barge spends most of her time sitting in front of her house at Sunabeda village of Nuapada district. She is unable to move due to her swollen right leg with a wound on her right foot.
“Blood oozes from the wound when I stand up,” Barge said. “I was bitten by a snake while cutting paddy plants. The wound is gradually spreading, and in one month it has covered half of the foot,” she added.Turmila could not avail health facility as the Primary Health Centre at Sunabeda was closed. “The hospital here remains closed as the doctor and other health staffs do not come,” her husband Ramsing said.
“We took her to the local medicine man, who treated her with some herbs. She was also given ghee to drink, and after that she vomited poison. She survived, but the wound did not heal,” he added.There are two such cases in Sunabeda panchayat. Another woman belonging to Chhindmundi village has lost a leg up to her knee due to snakebite three years ago. “The wound never healed, and the bone and muscle are gradually rotting,” Biju Jhankar of the village said.
Sunabeda village is located in the Sunabeda Wildlife Sanctuary, more than 100 km from the District Headquarters Hospital of Nuapada. There is a Primary Health Centre (PHC) here, but the doctors and the pharmacist posted here stay at Nuapada. As there is no communication facility to reach the nearest health centre, people depend upon quacks.
There are 30 villages on the plateau with a population of about 6,000, a majority of whom belong to one of the PVTGs of Odisha. It is one of the malaria-endemic areas of the district. But all these health problems hardly draw the attention of the Government.

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