Santirbazar, March 6 (TIWN): State govt. has adopted decision to set up district hospital at Santirbazaar sub division for the welfare of downtrodden. 100 beds Santirbazar District Hospital, has been set up near Bagafa RD Block. The expenditure incurred for the construction of District Hospital was Rs 27 crore.

Earlier, the patients from different areas of Belonia, Santirbazaar and Sabroom have to rush to Udaipur District Hospital, GBP Hospital and Tripura Medical College for better treatment. Hence, the district hospital should be inaugurated as soon as possible for the benefit of the people.People has been waiting eagerly for the running of the hospital. People of South district and the sub division are hopeful that the government would introduce modern equipments in the district hospital alike other hospitals. The government should inaugurate the hospital as soon as possible for the sake of poor people. Now, the question is when the government would inaugurate the hospital.

Moreover there is a division between Belonia and Santirbazar Sub Division people as Chief Minister Manik Sarkar decided to convert Santirbazar rural hospital as District Hospital rather than Belonia referral hospital. The common people of Belonia thought Belonia Referral Hospital would be the District Hospital .

Moreover Chief Medical Officer has also been appointed here. Section of people believes that for creating Santirbazar District Hospital is due to geographical location of the hospital as it is near the National Highway 44. According to source the average number of patients in Belonia Referral Hospital is about 200, sometimes it crosses 250.

 New building of Belonia Hospital is already completed to provide modern medical service. Infrastructure for modern medical service including blood bank, operation theatre, cesarean system, ICU etc are available here. Moreover sufficient staff quarters are also available here. Santirbazar/Baikhora/Jolaibari/Sabroom is also not far from Belonia either.   Road communication with rural areas with belonia is also satisfactory and most of the road is under PMGSY scheme. All kinds of vehicles and petrol pumps here .Above all plenty of medical shops are available with life saving drugs in front of the Belonia referral hospital.