Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief spokesperson, Rafi Ahmad Mir, Monday expressed grief over the death of a pregnant woman in Sher Bagh area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag town.
Urging the Governor to address the problems in healthcaresystem, Mir said, “The government has to play a pivotal role in building arobust healthcare system. The people living in rural areas travel longdistances to access health care and referrals consume a lot of precious time ofpatients.”
Mir called for implementing the District Development Boarddecision taken in year 2017 to establish a separate 200-bedded maternityhospital in Anantnag.He termed the government’s public spending, lowdoctor-patient ratio and inadequate infrastructure as the main problemsurrounding healthcare system in district Anantnag. “It is gross injustice withpatients that a place which doesn’t qualify to be a PHC operates as a maternityhospital catering to the whole district,” he said.