In India’s beedi hub of Murshidabad, exclusive hospital for workers of the industry lacks doctors and facilities
The Hindu
Since the Beedi Welfare Act, 1976 was repealed in 2019, the hospital has been plagued by lack of funds, shortage of doctors and technicians, poor maintenance and repeated power cuts
When a health worker was stitching up a wound on a patient at the Central hospital for beedi workers at Dhuliyan in Murshidabad district of West Bengal a few months ago, he had no inkling of what was in store. Power supply went off for load shedding and the generators could not be fired up.
Power cuts, a shortage of doctors and supporting staff, and a lack of funds and maintenance have been plaguing the country’s biggest hospital for beedi workers for several years. The hospital was inaugurated in 2000 by the former President Pranab Mukherjee, while he was the MP for Jangipur. Now, the hospital lies in a dilapidated condition.
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