Editor: Varun Sharma
A population of around 900 people and not a single doctor.
As a part of The Quint’s election coverage, we reached a village named Bida, near the Indo-Pak border in Rajasthan where we found no doctors, one nurse and just one health center.
A ground-check of the only sub-health centre in the village reveals that not only there is a lack of facilities to treat emergency patients but also no availability of ambulance and medicines.
The only ANM (Auxiliary Nurse Midwife) in the village has to refer any emergency or critical patients to the main community health centre a few kilometres away.
Inside the poorly lit delivery room, there is a half-broken bed, no operation bulb and a nurse kit which is often not sterilised for lack of facilities to disinfect the equipment. Danpati says she often boils the equipment in hot water at home as there are no proper provisions at the healthcare centre.
While 36-year-old Nainu says the politicians never even visited their village after winning elections, students from a local school dreams hope to come to their aid by growing up to be doctors and building hospitals in their village.
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