A Herald Report
BY MELVYN MISQUITA& ANIL SHANKHWALKAR
PORVORIM, APRIL 24 -- When patients went to the Sub-Health Centre (SHC) at Virlossa in Penha-da-Franca during the last three months, they were advised to carry with them a bottle of dettol.
"We were told to bring a dettol bottle with us as the sub-health centre did not have dettol," informed a patient.
Sandwiched between two classrooms at a government primary school building at Virlossa-Britona, the premises is only a part of the dismal state of the one-room sub-health Centre.
The Verlossa SHC, which comes under the jurisdiction of the Aldona Primary Health Centre (PHC), is managed by an Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM), Male Basic Health Worker and an attendent.While a lone and age-old cupboard houses files and records of the SHC as well as many medicines, other medicines are placed by the window sill and on a bench, with DHS banners as makeshift table cloths, behind the cupboard.
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