First Health Center in Remote Central Dooars Brings Relief to Residents
West Bengal
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News18•27-01-2026, 11:26
First Health Center in Remote Central Dooars Brings Relief to Residents
- •A health center is being built for the first time in the remote Central Dooars area, bringing significant relief to local residents.
- •The area, near the Bhutanese border in Kalchini Block, previously lacked essential facilities like government health centers and schools.
- •Residents faced extreme difficulties, especially during monsoon, due to the Pana and Basra rivers isolating the village and making travel to Kalchini (15 km away) challenging.
- •Many lives were lost while transporting patients to Latabari Hospital due to the absence of local medical facilities and proper infrastructure.
- •Ganga Prasad Sharma, Chairman of Jaigaon Development Authority, highlighted the health center's importance, especially for pregnant women in the border region.
Why It Matters: A new health center in Central Dooars offers crucial medical access to a long-isolated community.
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