The two field hospitals opened by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in the interiors of the Maoist insurgency-hit Sukma and Bijapur districts of the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh will treat civilians, besides personnel of security forces and the police. Medicines will be provided free.
Emergency medical support to personnel injured during operations would be a major function of the hospitals. H.S. Sidhu, Inspector-General, CRPF, Chhattisgarh sector, and Shailendra, Inspector-General, Works, inaugurated them on Republic Day.
“During his recent visit to Chhattisgarh, Director-General, CRPF, Prakash Mishra visited the Chintalnar camp in the interior parts of Sukma and directed that the field hospitals be established by Republic Day, 2015,” a CRPF press statement said.
“He immediately sanctioned and provided necessary funds and equipment and deputed highly qualified medical staff to these field hospitals. The hospitals have become functional in less than a month’s time.”
The CRPF said the public, now “deprived of medical and health care as Naxals had destroyed government hospitals, primary health care centres and dispensaries,” would get quality medical aid and assistance.
The CPRF deputed two medical officers, one of them a specialist, and supporting technical staff to each of these hospitals.
Each hospital has a medical inspection room, an intensive care unit, X-ray and ECG equipment, a pathology laboratory, an operation theatre for minor surgery and an eight-bed ward.
