The plight of people residing in and around Bish Khuti area in Sonitpur district is deeply saddening. People, particularly patients, are suffering a lot owing to the absence or lack of doctors at Bish Khuti health sub–centre.

The plightof emergency patients needs no formal narrative to describe and discuss.Pregnant women, emergency patients, children and aged patients are the worsthits.

Shortage ofdoctors has hit the health care system in Sonitpur district, affectingespecially those belonging to the below poverty line category.

On thecontrary, the private health care facilities mushrooming in the district aredoing brisk business by taking advantage of the poor public health services.

A visit to the sub-centre also revealed – there is a huge stock of expired medicines lying inside the health sub centre.