Cracks in ceiling floods PHC

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK

01.01.2022

The Urban Primary Health Centre in Santhome was flooded on Friday not because storm water entered the building but due to a leakage from cracks in the roof.

Workers were forced to place buckets beneath leakages in the roof of the PHC while sanitation workers spend hours mopping the floor. More than 50 patients who had come to the centre for treatment and vaccination were left in a fix.

R Ramesh, who was at this PHC for vaccination, had raised the issue of leaking ceilings in November on the Namma Chennai app. “But the Corporation has not attended the complaint till now,” he said. He received a response from an assistant engineer that the issue would be addressed shortly.

Nurses and health staff at the centre on condition of anonymity said the leakage issue was there since 2017, when cracks had developed. Civid body officials said they would have to prepare a budget and fix the building. The PHC was inaugurated by chief minister MK Stalin in 2009 when he was the deputy CM.