Community health unit set up at a remote village of Dailekh

Dailekh, Feb 18: Gorti village, a geographically difficult and distant place of Dailekh district, has got a health facility.    
    
A basic community health unit has been established at Gorti of Mahabu rural municipality-5. Chairman of the rural municipality, Janga Bahadur Shahi, informed that the local level had launched initiative to set up health units. Five wards of the rural municipality have already got the health units.    
    
"Our local level is a geographically difficult and distant place. It is the major cause to deprive people of essential health services," he said, adding that health facility would now convenience the needy ones.    
    
Although there are four health posts at wards and a hospital at Mahabu rural municipality, the people from remote areas were still facing utmost difficulty to receive health services, according to hm.    
    
It takes hours for the people from Gorti to reach nearby health facilities.    
    
Shahi further informed that they were planning to develop Mahabu as an agricultural hub. Planned development was initiated at the local level so that citizens will enjoy the facilities of electricity, roads, education, health and agricultural markets.    
    
Similarly, chairman of ward no 5 of Mahabu rural municipality, Deep Bahadur Shahi, informed that the community health unit was established, considering the need of timely treatment of women facing emergency. Once the emergency health service is in place, it saves women's lives, he added. (RSS)