{"id":296241,"date":"2017-07-21T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/2101-24x7-emergency-health-service-suspended"},"modified":"2017-07-21T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:30:00","slug":"24x7-emergency-health-service-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2017\/07\/21\/24x7-emergency-health-service-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"24&#215;7 emergency health service suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">\n<p>By A Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>IMPHAL | July 21<\/p>\n<p>The 24&#215;7 emergency health service of the Community Health Centre (CHC) Yaipripok has been suspended immediately following shortage of doctors.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the hospital management society CHC Yairipok stated that the decision to suspend the 24&#215;7 operation of the CHC was taken by the society during its emergency meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The statement further pointed out that as per the Indian Public Health Standard a CHC requires 11 doctors. However, the CHC is presently run by only two doctors.<\/p>\n<p>It claimed that the matter pertaining to the shortage of doctors has been appraised to the authority concerned several times yet the authority remained indifferent.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, taking into consideration the plight of the two doctors the society has decided to suspend the emergency service until enough man power is provided to the CHC, it said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the society, Yairipok CHC avails service to highest number of patients with over 150 patients per day in the emergency section excluding the OPD patients.<\/p>\n<p>Given the maximum intake of patients, it claimed that the workload could become detrimental to the health of the only two doctors posted at the CHC before pointing out that a doctor is recommended to work for maximum of 48 hours as per Indian Public Health Standard.<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, it contended that in Kakwa PHC and Akampat PHC, areas close to Imphal, have over five doctors each.<\/p>\n<p>It appealed to the authority concerned to look into the grievances of the CHC at the earliest in public interest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/2101-24x7-emergency-health-service-suspended\">http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/2101-24x7-emergency-health-service-suspended<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By A Staff Reporter<br \/>\nIMPHAL | July 21<br \/>\nThe 24&#215;7 emergency health service of the Community Health Centre (CHC) Yaipripok has been suspended immediately following shortage of doctors.<br \/>\nA statement issued by the hospital management society CHC Yairipok st&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15434,4],"tags":[2733,15447],"class_list":["post-296241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ifp","category-news","tag-ifp","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296242,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296241\/revisions\/296242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}