By Elias Borogaon | Coordinator
Madarihat Block is situated under Alipurduar district in hilly region of international border of Bhutan. Maximum people are living at tea garden area or Forest Basti area .Transport system is very poor. Electricity connection is not available in every house. Most of the tea garden of Madarihat block has been closed down. So now they have no income source to lead their Life properly. That’s why maximum people are low wages garden labour and some people work outside in the different state or country like Kerala, Delhi and Bhutan. High numbers of the people make local alcohol at their own house and sale it to the local market.
Safe drinking water is a very big crisis in the closed and sick gardens.Politicians, activities and media are not as vocal on this issue as they are on the food crisis. One will find littlelittle boys and girls are carrying water in big polythene jars hanging on both sides of cycle from far away source. Collection of water is the most important issue in their daily life. As the drinking water supply in the gardens is mostly electricity dependent, when the garden is closed or abandoned electricity is cut off, the workers receive no drinking water. Moreover, by using regularly unsafe water causes dysentery, diarrhea and otherwater borne disease has found in garden areas.
During the month of July we had organized 26 actual medical camps in six different places. Like-(1) Dhumsipara tea garden, (2) Hantupara tea garden, (3) Garganda tea garden, (4) Birpara tea garden, (5) Dimdima tea garden and (6) Kuheli club Tulsipara.Because People of that mentioned areas were not getting proper treatment by any Qualified MBBS doctors.There is only a BPHC hospital in Madarihat block. From our each camp, BPHC hospital is near about 15 KM. People of these areas could not take government service Due to availability of income source .We checked 2459 patients in July, 2018. Among them 36 patients were
Pregnancy mother, Children with diarrhea was 18 and children with ARI were 15. Blood test done 149 in that month. We sent 108 patients for higher facilities to Government Hospital as referral cases. In that camp we checked the patient very carefully by MBBS doctor. We gave the medicine to the patients according to doctor’s advice.
At Last we give thanks National Health Mission (NHM) for given us this opportunity to treat the sick people among the mentioned six tea garden areas.
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