KASARAGOD: The newly opened government medical college at Kasaragod does not even provide the medical treatment of a Primary Health Center. If the government agrees with the prominent social worker, Daya Bai’s demands to give Endosulfan patients, the absence of treatment at the medical college will be impossible.

The patients can visit the doctor from 9 am to 1 pm and get a prescription. There are no treatment facilities there. About hundred to hundred and fifty patients arrive to see the doctor. People with more serious problems do not go there.

Though a camp can be done to renew the list of Endosulfan patients, it must begin now. It has not been done since 2015. Therefore, the patients are not getting treatment due to this.

The pension allotted to Endosulfan patients has been not coming for the past three months.

The OP department at the medical college was opened only in January this year, with big fanfare, after construction began nine years ago.

The construction of the Administrative Block, Hospital Block, and Hostel is completed and 273 posts have been created. A Special Officer is also appointed. However, the wiring to the multistory building where the hospital must function is not done yet. The tender has only been given.

It is anyone’s guess how much time it will take to complete the wiring of a building that can house up to 300 beds.

The OP is working in the Administrative Block. Some are pointing out the appointment of a Neurologist to treat Endosulfan patients as the efficiency of those behind it. However, there are no treatment facilities. No MRI Scan or EEG facilities are there. Therefore the patients must depend on other medical colleges that are 100 km away in Mangalore and Pariyaram Medical College.

Out of the 273 posts created only 95 are posted. Out of this 80 have joined. Until the medical college is in working condition, there is no use in appointing employees.

The Supreme Court and the National Human Rights Commission ordered, months ago, that medical treatment must be provided to Endosulfan patients.