No generator at blood bank attached to District Hospital Dimapur, says DAYO

DIMAPUR — The Dimapur Ao Youth Organisation (DAYO) has expressed displeasure over the blood bank attached to the District Hospital Dimapur allegedly running without an operational generator for the last three years, terming it as “utter negligence and total disregard for the lives of the citizens of Nagaland”.

In a press release issued on Saturday, the student body claimed that no action has been taken despite serving a letter to the Principal Director of Health and Family Welfare Department (H&FW) in March this year to provide a generator.

It said that “the Blood Bank of Dimapur had singularly covered the whole of Nagaland and parts of Assam for a long time”.

“Providing and ensuring availability of safe life-saving blood transfusion with matching blood types round the clock is itself a whole eco system of technical expertise and selfless dedication. All these will be rendered futile and useless without power backup as there is frequent loadsheding and will result in loss of precious human lives.

“This shameful state of affair should be immediately rectified, otherwise the concerned personnel of the particular department will be held responsible,” read the press release, adding that DAYO has been spreading public awareness, community participation and maintaining a functional list of potential blood donors, sending the importance of blood donation.

Pointing out that Dimapur has been vulnerable to dengue, especially with onset of monsoon, the student body cautioned that the citizens won’t remain silent “if the concerned Medical department is found wanting and does not pull up its socks to meet any outbreak of vector-borne disease”.