Dimapur June 10 (MExN): If expected developments emerge as being pursued and envisaged, Dimapur and Wokha would have a medical nursing institution each with an expected outlay of about one crores each just for the initial sanction, courtesy the Nagaland Health & Family Welfare ministry.
The nursing institutions implied to be of rank, would be of high-end technical nursing and training impartation, sources said adding that they would also be functioning as Regional Diagnostic centers. The medical institutions have been proposed under the 12th Finance provisions it was informed.
When contacted, State Health & Family Welfare Minster Dr TM Lotha said that the Detailed Project Report (DPR) proposals have already been submitted and “hopefully” the two nursing institutions of rank would come into realization very soon.
“Proposals for two nursing institutions both in Dimapur and Wokha district have been proposed and hopefully, the proposals would be accepted (seeing the feasibility and need of the undertakings)” Dr TM Lotha said. To the query why the state government should pursue for two more when two nursing institutions (albeit standard-level institutions), one each in the capital Kohima and Tuensang district, already exists the Health Minister informed of the need of the rural areas for more trained medical professionals. “The medical department needs more manpower to be deputed to the rural areas where the demand for trained medical nurses and personnel is very high” Dr TM Lotha said.
Particularly in the case of Wokha, the district ‘privileged’ with the instating of the Global University, the one-of-its-kind professional university, the nursing institution would be of added boon for the Wokha people. Wokha also holds the unpleasant reputation of having one of the most neglected and grotty government Civil Hospitals in Nagaland.
However the minister is a busy man today with much developmental works on in the district with the hospital receiving a considerable share of the undertakings. It was informed that Wokha Civil Hospital would very soon have a complete Blood Bank as well as a Trauma and Accidents Centre. Both the facilities, which even most districts don’t have for the moment, are nearing completion.
The up-gradation and revamp works in the different components of the hospital are also nearing completion. Proposals for more community health centers, both at the regional and rural levels in Wokha are being pursued, sources said.
It may be mentioned that Wokha Civil Hospital, after decades of existence in utter dereliction, could be given a new strain of life with the Minster’s intervention recently with a total revamp of the centre with hi-tech medical equipments and necessary infrastructural additions.
The proposal for the aforementioned professional nursing institution is seen as part of the Health Minister’s effort to “pick up Wokha medicine and place it with other advanced medicines of the world”.
