People rue lack of proper health facilities in Kumkadi

Kupwara, Dec 23: Located along Line of Control (LOC) the residents of Kumkadi area in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district have expressed resentment against authorities for failing to provide them proper health facilities with the result they are subjected to severe hardships.

Residents said that lack of better health facilities have always been a source of trouble for the whole population of over three thousand. The residents said that their area happens to be heavily snow-bound and lack of better health facilities always give them a tough time.

“Not only inadequate staff but lack of basic diagnostic facilities and pregnancy care are such aspects which haunt us and sometimes we think about migrating from here. At the time of any medical emergency during winters we are forced to shift patients on makeshift stretchers by walking several kilometers to reach a place where we board a vehicle. Since we don’t have the facility of an ambulance here we shoulder our patients in heavy snow,” said a local.

“We are compelled to either shift pregnant women to Kupwara or Srinagar for lack of pregnancy care here and the expenses on shifting them had always been tough to bear due to poverty,” said a local youth.

The residents appealed to health authorities to take some concrete steps in this regard so that the hardships being faced by them may end.