Bajura, April 7
The isolation ward established at Kolti Primary Health Centre in Bajura to treat coronavirus patients has neither doctors nor essential equipment.
Acting Chief Assistant Health Worker Singh Giri at the health centre said the isolation ward was established only for the sake of formality as it lacked health workers and essential equipment, among others.
Health workers said that for a proper isolation ward there ought to be a doctor’s team, oxygen, monitor and personal protective equipment, but the isolation ward set up at the health centre lacked all these.
People in northern Bajura go to different cities of India and other countries for jobs. These foreign returnees have been roaming from one village to another freely ever since they entered the district amidst the COVID-19 outbreak across the world. The local levels in the district have established quarantine facilities, but they are empty.
The isolation ward, with two beds was set up to keep COVID-19 suspects at the health centre.
Assistant Coordinator at the Department of Health in Budhinanda Municipality Omjung Shahi said the health centre did not e
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