Thread by @amit_tushar

Palghar MH

A 36-year-old pregnant woman, who was bleeding and in severe pain, travelled from one health centre to another, before breathing her last at her third destination, about 150 km away from her home

mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-…

"At least 5-6 pregnant tribal women have died due to complications related to pregnancy in the past one month. Also, there are many unreported cases,” said Vivek Pandit, the chairperson of Tribal Development Review Committee of Maharashtra government."

What a Shame!

Jawhar’s sub-district hospital has multiple vacancies. “And those who were hired do not report to work. They run their own clinics and hospitals which poor tribals cannot afford,”

Amazing so the hired doctors who probably get paid don't even attend the area they are assigned to

The sub-district hospital neither has facilities for a surgery, not for anaesthesia, x-ray, sonography, etc

“Not a single radiologist is available in the district.

Above all, there is no civil hospital in Palghar district

land has been allotted for a Civil Hospital in Palghar, but “after nine years of approval, not a single brick has been laid down yet.”

"Even after strict stricture and orders passed by the high court repeatedly, government is not ready to take cognisance of the vacant posts and poor infrastructure of the health department."

This is unbelievable

"Any patient who goes to a sub-district hospital in Jawhar is always referred for death to Civil hospital in Nashik. So, Jawhar hospital is a gateway to death. "