CHITRAL: Civil Dispensary Arkrio could not functioned in 10 years since its establishment. Thousands of residents of Arkroi village on Arundu Road in the very south of Drosh Tehsil are deprived of health, education, communication, basic human rights and other facilities. In this area, the former Provincial Minister of Population Welfare Saleem Khan Chitrali had provided funds for a civil dispensary and constructed a building, but this civil dispensary locally known as hospitals is still closed for the last 10 years. Qari Muhammad Daim, Nazim village council Arkroi Langur Butt told our correspondent that a civil dispensary was established at Arkroi in 2011 but unfortunately this dispensary is still closed. He said that we have repeatedly requested the District Health Officer Chitral and the district administration to open it, but in response they said that , the owner of the land asks for his employment, but this issue has not been resolved yet.
Qari Muhammad Daim, Nazim of Village Council Arkroi Langurbat, offered that if the owner of the land does not object, we are ready to give him alternate land in return as substitute or compensation of his land, but our problem should be solved. He said that if the Health Department want to solve our problems we are also ready to give them alternative land, either by sending staff to this dispensary and opening it, or else we are ready to give land to its owner in exchange for this land. Another land should be given and a hospital should be built on it. He said that Arkroi is a backward area where there are no health facilities. He said that men can go to Drosh or Chitral Hospital by climbing on a wood-carrying Datsun, but women are facing great difficulties in terms of medical treatment. Women have to be taken to Drosh or Chitral Hospital in delivery cases, but the condition of the road is so bad that these women either give birth or die on the way before reaching hospital. It takes four to five hours while transporting female patients to hospital and it is very dangerous for their life and health. During this time, their lives can also be lost.
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Shan Bibi, the only unopposed elected woman councillor of Arundu Village Council, said that I represent women from Mirkhani to the farthest part of Pakistan, i.e. Arundu, but our women are facing many difficulties in terms of treatment and education. She said that there is no female doctor in this entire union council, but the lady health visitor of the Rural Health Center Arundu also sitting at home without any duty and women often die during delivery cases. She said that we are also Pakistanis and it is responsibility of the state to give us our basic fundamental rights. If the government does not accept us as Pakistanis, then we will be forced to migrate to the neighbouring country of Afghanistan.
Local people of Arkroi said that we are facing a lot of difficulties in terms of treatment here. Qari Mohammad Daim, Nazim of Village Council Arkroi, has strongly demanded from the District Administration, Provincial Health Secretary, Health Minister and Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that the closed dispensary located in Village Council Arkroi for ten years should be opened immediately to function it and the land owner must be compensated. The health department should immediately settle its dispute with the land owner of this hospital so that the people here can be facilitated by opening this hospital, otherwise these oppressed people here will be compel to come on the roads and will be forced to take extreme steps for their legitimate and genuine rights.
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