Pithoragarh News: Doctor was not a pharmacist now after a fourth class retired, Kandarachina hung in PHC

Updated: Mom, 22 Sep 2025 02:23 PM (IST) Doctor has been waiting for 10 years at the Kandarachina Primary Health Center in Pithoragarh. There are no pharmacists and the only female employee has also retired who locked the hospital. Treatment for a population of 10 thousand is 20 km away. After the formation of Uttarakhand, expectations increased, but the facilities decreased. Only the insurance was received from public representatives. Kishan Pathak, Jagran, Pithoragarh. The bad services of the mountain and the leaders of the leaders are almost the same. There are many demands, but not improvement. The Primary Health Center (PHC) Kandarachina of the Pithoragarh district is the latest example of this. The wait for the arrival of the doctor for ten years of 10 thousand population here did not end. The pharmacist also did not come and now the only employees of the women have also retired. In such a situation, the lock hung in the hospital and now the treatment of the rural population has also left 20 km. Remove ad, just read the news, before establishing a separate state of Uttarakhand, regular doctors were posted in PHC Kandarachina in 1971. Of which about 10 thousand population of about 20 towns in the area are used to get treatment. After the formation of Uttarakhand in 2000, expectations increased, but the facilities still decreased. The doctor was placed a year or two. After 2015, the doctor stopped coming to the hospital. Since then, the only support from the fourth class has been Devaki Devi. Such medicines were distributed that would open hospitals and sometimes spread medicines with the help of pharmacists coming from gangolihat. On August 31, she also retired and hanged the lock on the hospital as soon as she left. In such a situation, people are now forced to go to Gangolihat Hospital, 20 km away for treatment. Former JP member of Kandarachina, Harish Bhandari, former chief Manisha Bisht, Takea Devi, president of the Women’s Group Kuntachauda and social activist Govind Singh Bisht, says they have until now only have an empty assurance of public representatives and officers. When talking about Pithoragarh district, 174 posts of doctors are approved here and 70 of them are vacant. A doctor placed during rotation also struggles with a similar situation on a doctor placed by Almora and Bageshwar district. For a population of about 30 thousand, nine doctors had to be deployed in the Open Community Health Center, but only one doctor is employed. He also went for PG studies. In the light of public anger, arrangements are shown by sending a gangolihat doctor and three days of Bernag hospital. In Kumaon, more than 42 percent of the posts of doctors 432 are vacant compared to the 1039 posts approved in six districts of vacant Kumaon. About 47 posts of specialist doctors in nine CHCs in Almora are vacant. There are 31 vacancies at 107 approved positions in the district of Bageshwar. Nine PHCs are completely without doctors. About 87 are vacant in 340 posts in the Nainital district. In the Champawat district, only 60 doctors work in 18 PHC instead of 111. Out of 226 posts sanctioned in Udham Singh Nagar is 131 vacant. There is a shortage of doctors in the district. Repeated letters are sent to the government for the deployment of doctors. Pharmacists are sent from gangolihat to Kandarachina Hospital. Attempts are underway to deploy permanent doctor, soon the doctor will be deployed. Dr. SS NiBiyal, Chief Medical Officer, Pithoragarh