Health Department staff walk 4 km to treat tribal woman, her premature baby

NGO donates ambulance to the dept. to help reach tribal hamlets

Staff from the Health Department in the Nilgiris walked 4 km to treat a 19-year-woman and her prematurely-born child near Kotagiri recently. After the efforts of the team of government health workers were shared online, a non-governmental organisation, working on preventing infant mortality deaths, donated an ambulance to the Health Department for use to reach remote tribal hamlets in the district. Speaking to The Hindu, P. Maharajan, an assistant surgeon attached to the Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Nedugula, said that his colleague, Chandrika, from the PHC in Sholur Mattam, as well as nurses and other staff, from the Health Department rushed to the village after hearing that the woman had given birth to a premature baby and required immediate medical attention on July 3.