AGARTALA/ MOHANPUR, June 25 (TIWN): The Montala Primary Health Centre which has been opened to provide better health facilities to the residents of Montala area under Mohanpur Sub-Division has been running in deplorable condition for prolonged days.

The State Government had opened the primary health centre with a purpose to serve the population of the area, but today it has failed to ensure proper services due to staff crunch and negligence of the current staffs including lack of infrastructure.

The huge building which has been constructed after spending lakhs of rupees, failed to win the heart of the common people over the area which lead the population to suffer, due to lack of proper health service.

The condition of the health centre has been continuing for the last one year. Only two staffs have been deployed in the health centre, to attend the patients.

Locals alleged that the timing of the health centre to open, is at 8 AM in the morning and the closing time is at 12 PM in the afternoon. But the current staffs of the health centre, open the hospital at around 11 AM in the morning and close it by 12 PM, and most of the times they open the health centre as their wish.

The centre was opened with the vision of providing healthcare facilities to the people residing in that area, today running in a pathetic condition giving headache to the people. Most of the time, the patients expecting no service from concern the health centre, goes for the Katlamara Primary Heath Centre.

The locals further alleged that though the pathetic condition of the health centre has been continuing for the last one year, till today not even a single official of the concern department has arrived to invigilate the condition of the centre.

Despite of having and health centre in the area the locals had to travel long way for proper treatment.

A local informed that 40 to 50 patients wait in a queue from 7:30 AM with a hope that the health centre will open by 8 AM in the morning.

Besides, agitated locals also alleged that the most of the time it has been seen that the staffs bring huge number of medicines in the health centre. But the question is if the staffs are not attending any patients then where the medicines go?