Kerala authorities appoints one neurologist, claims Kasaragod District Hospital is super-specialty
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KASARAGOD: The authorities of Kerala has filed a sequence of half-truths in its affidavit to the Supreme Court and urged it to shut a contempt of court docket petition filed by eight endosulfan victims.
The half-truths are within the space of strengthening well being infrastructure within the district, notably within the 11 gram panchayat affected by the aerial spraying of endosulfan. The authorities made the claims to fulfill the Supreme Court order, dated January 10, 2017, to offer “medical facilities or treatment for life-long health issues, arising out of the effects of endosulfan”.
The New Indian Express fact-checks the claims made within the affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court on July 15. The subsequent listening to of the contempt petition is on Monday, July 18.
Infrastructure improvement
Claim: As per the federal government order dated April 22, 2017, District Hospital in Kanhangad and General Hospital in Kasaragod had been chosen to be developed with tremendous speciality companies in neurology.
Reality: One submit of neurologist was created for every of the 2 hospitals just lately. The neurologists joined the General Hospital and the District Hospital.
The hospitals acquired electroencephalogram (EEG) machines on July 1, however technicians haven’t but been appointed.
A neurology unit would require a minimum of three neurologists and an interventional stroke care lab to offer tremendous speciality service around the clock, stated docs.
To ensure, Kasaragod district doesn’t have a tertiary care centre. The district hospital has arrange a cath lab at a price of Rs 9 crore in February 2021 however the authorities has not but appointed a heart specialist.
Kasaragod DH doesn’t have a forensic surgeon. General Hospital has one and is anticipated to do day and night time autopsy, as per a court docket order.
There is not any physician for radio analysis in the complete district. The District Hospital doesn’t have a urologist, medical oncologist, cardiothoracic surgeon, pediatric surgeon, or perhaps a gastroenterologist. “We can’t even do an endoscopy,” stated a senior well being official.
Claim: Community Health Centre (CHC) Mangalpady and CHC Panathady had been developed as Taluk Hospitals.
Reality: All the 4 taluk hospitals in Kasaragod — Mangalpady, Panathady, Nileshwar, and Trikaripur are functioning solely as CHCs. They do not even take childbirth circumstances as a result of not one of the hospitals has gynaecologists or anaesthetists. “Each taluk hospital should have three gynaecologists and at least two anaesthetists so that they can take childbirth cases,” stated a health care provider.
Now, the District Hospital and the General Hospital attend to all of the beginning circumstances within the district. Taluk hospitals refer even circumstances of canine bites to the District Hospital and General Hospital as a result of they don’t have anti-rabies serum.
The taluk hospitals on the National Highway ought to have trauma care.
Claim: Seventeen hospitals, together with 3 personal tremendous speciality hospitals within the close by district of Mangalore, had been empanelled to offer Tertiary Care companies freely for endosulfan sufferers. This facility primarily goals to offer multispecialty and important care, most cancers remedy, cardiac and neurology care.
Reality: Patients rely on these services exterior the district for his or her remedy
Claim: For offering tertiary care services, there are two Government Medical Colleges. 1) Government Medical College, Pariyaram, Kannur, which is 22 km from the Kasaragod district border. 2) Government Medical College, Kasaragod, can also be located in an endosulfan-affected space. OP companies for the general public began on January 3, 2021. All speciality OPD and tremendous speciality OPD, together with neurology and nephrology can be found there. Special consideration is being given for the remedy of endosulfan victims.
Reality: 1. The Government Medical College at Pariyaram in Kannur district is 40 km from the District Hospital in Kanhangad, which refers sufferers, and never 22km. For sufferers in far-flung endosulfan-affected areas equivalent to Enmakaje panchayat, Pariyaram medical faculty is 90 to 100 km away.
2. The Kasaragod medical faculty isn’t purposeful. Ten specialist docs supply outpatient consultations from January 2022 and never 2021. Their OP session has no infrastructure assist. In November 2022, the state well being minister stated Kasaragod medical faculty will begin admitting sufferers by May. No work is going on within the hospital block.
Claim: Operationalisation of Oncology division in district hospital Kanhangad and basic hospital Kasaragod.
Reality: Kasaragod should be the one district with out radiation remedy within the personal or authorities sector. There is not any medical oncologist both. There is one radiotherapist who affords chemotherapy. In some circumstances, sufferers would require chemotherapy and radiation, and in some circumstances, they are going to require chemo, radiation, and surgical procedure.
Claim: Twelve posts had been created for Women & Children Hospital, Kanhangad. They are seven workers nurses, two pharmacists, two clerks, and one workplace attendant.
Reality: The authorities inaugurated the hospital in February 2021 however stays closed until date. The hospital doesn’t also have a energy provide. The district medical workplace has proposed a minimum of 200 posts for the hospital.
Claim: Physiotherapy unit is hooked up to the medical facility within the 11 endosulfan
panchayats. Fixed-day discipline visits of physiotherapists are offered to needy sufferers.
Reality: Physiotherapists in three endosulfan-affected panchayats are on maternity depart, and replacements haven’t been posted.
Claim: AnuYatra cellular unit – to ship doorstep supply of well being care companies amongst lower than 18-year-old in a different way abled youngsters in endosulfan affected areas commenced in November 2017. The crew consists of a physiotherapist, speech therapist, psychologist, particular educator.
Reality: The scheme is totally on paper. Activists say the unit does have speech therapist, psychologist and particular educator as claimed.
99% of endosulfan sufferers got compensation.
The district administration has disbursed Rs 5 lakh compensation to three,667 sufferers, stated the state authorities’s affidavit to the Supreme Court.
Now there are solely 47 extra individuals to get the compensation. Of them, purposes of 25 victims are being processed by the village places of work and the collectorate. Twenty-two sufferers aren’t been discovered, it stated.
Collector Bhandari Swagat Ranveerchand has initiated steps to hint them. Notices have been revealed in newspapers and put up on the collectorate, taluk places of work, village places of work and panchayat places of work. Names of the individuals have been shared with NGOs, ASHA, and income officers.
KASARAGOD: The authorities of Kerala has filed a sequence of half-truths in its affidavit to the Supreme Court and urged it to shut a contempt of court docket petition filed by eight endosulfan victims.
The half-truths are within the space of strengthening well being infrastructure within the district, notably within the 11 gram panchayat affected by the aerial spraying of endosulfan. The authorities made the claims to fulfill the Supreme Court order, dated January 10, 2017, to offer “medical facilities or treatment for life-long health issues, arising out of the effects of endosulfan”.
The New Indian Express fact-checks the claims made within the affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court on July 15. The subsequent listening to of the contempt petition is on Monday, July 18.
Infrastructure improvement
Claim: As per the federal government order dated April 22, 2017, District Hospital in Kanhangad and General Hospital in Kasaragod had been chosen to be developed with tremendous speciality companies in neurology.
Reality: One submit of neurologist was created for every of the 2 hospitals just lately. The neurologists joined the General Hospital and the District Hospital.
The hospitals acquired electroencephalogram (EEG) machines on July 1, however technicians haven’t but been appointed.
A neurology unit would require a minimum of three neurologists and an interventional stroke care lab to offer tremendous speciality service around the clock, stated docs.
To ensure, Kasaragod district doesn’t have a tertiary care centre. The district hospital has arrange a cath lab at a price of Rs 9 crore in February 2021 however the authorities has not but appointed a heart specialist.
Kasaragod DH doesn’t have a forensic surgeon. General Hospital has one and is anticipated to do day and night time autopsy, as per a court docket order.
There is not any physician for radio analysis in the complete district. The District Hospital doesn’t have a urologist, medical oncologist, cardiothoracic surgeon, pediatric surgeon, or perhaps a gastroenterologist. “We can’t even do an endoscopy,” stated a senior well being official.
Claim: Community Health Centre (CHC) Mangalpady and CHC Panathady had been developed as Taluk Hospitals.
Reality: All the 4 taluk hospitals in Kasaragod — Mangalpady, Panathady, Nileshwar, and Trikaripur are functioning solely as CHCs. They do not even take childbirth circumstances as a result of not one of the hospitals has gynaecologists or anaesthetists. “Each taluk hospital should have three gynaecologists and at least two anaesthetists so that they can take childbirth cases,” stated a health care provider.
Now, the District Hospital and the General Hospital attend to all of the beginning circumstances within the district. Taluk hospitals refer even circumstances of canine bites to the District Hospital and General Hospital as a result of they don’t have anti-rabies serum.
The taluk hospitals on the National Highway ought to have trauma care.
Claim: Seventeen hospitals, together with 3 personal tremendous speciality hospitals within the close by district of Mangalore, had been empanelled to offer Tertiary Care companies freely for endosulfan sufferers. This facility primarily goals to offer multispecialty and important care, most cancers remedy, cardiac and neurology care.
Reality: Patients rely on these services exterior the district for his or her remedy
Claim: For offering tertiary care services, there are two Government Medical Colleges. 1) Government Medical College, Pariyaram, Kannur, which is 22 km from the Kasaragod district border. 2) Government Medical College, Kasaragod, can also be located in an endosulfan-affected space. OP companies for the general public began on January 3, 2021. All speciality OPD and tremendous speciality OPD, together with neurology and nephrology can be found there. Special consideration is being given for the remedy of endosulfan victims.
Reality: 1. The Government Medical College at Pariyaram in Kannur district is 40 km from the District Hospital in Kanhangad, which refers sufferers, and never 22km. For sufferers in far-flung endosulfan-affected areas equivalent to Enmakaje panchayat, Pariyaram medical faculty is 90 to 100 km away.
2. The Kasaragod medical faculty isn’t purposeful. Ten specialist docs supply outpatient consultations from January 2022 and never 2021. Their OP session has no infrastructure assist. In November 2022, the state well being minister stated Kasaragod medical faculty will begin admitting sufferers by May. No work is going on within the hospital block.
Claim: Operationalisation of Oncology division in district hospital Kanhangad and basic hospital Kasaragod.
Reality: Kasaragod should be the one district with out radiation remedy within the personal or authorities sector. There is not any medical oncologist both. There is one radiotherapist who affords chemotherapy. In some circumstances, sufferers would require chemotherapy and radiation, and in some circumstances, they are going to require chemo, radiation, and surgical procedure.
Claim: Twelve posts had been created for Women & Children Hospital, Kanhangad. They are seven workers nurses, two pharmacists, two clerks, and one workplace attendant.
Reality: The authorities inaugurated the hospital in February 2021 however stays closed until date. The hospital doesn’t also have a energy provide. The district medical workplace has proposed a minimum of 200 posts for the hospital.
Claim: Physiotherapy unit is hooked up to the medical facility within the 11 endosulfan
panchayats. Fixed-day discipline visits of physiotherapists are offered to needy sufferers.
Reality: Physiotherapists in three endosulfan-affected panchayats are on maternity depart, and replacements haven’t been posted.
Claim: AnuYatra cellular unit – to ship doorstep supply of well being care companies amongst lower than 18-year-old in a different way abled youngsters in endosulfan affected areas commenced in November 2017. The crew consists of a physiotherapist, speech therapist, psychologist, particular educator.
Reality: The scheme is totally on paper. Activists say the unit does have speech therapist, psychologist and particular educator as claimed.
99% of endosulfan sufferers got compensation.
The district administration has disbursed Rs 5 lakh compensation to three,667 sufferers, stated the state authorities’s affidavit to the Supreme Court.
Now there are solely 47 extra individuals to get the compensation. Of them, purposes of 25 victims are being processed by the village places of work and the collectorate. Twenty-two sufferers aren’t been discovered, it stated.
Collector Bhandari Swagat Ranveerchand has initiated steps to hint them. Notices have been revealed in newspapers and put up on the collectorate, taluk places of work, village places of work and panchayat places of work. Names of the individuals have been shared with NGOs, ASHA, and income officers.
