ITANAGAR, Jul 29:

 

After water crisis reportedly led to cancellation of scheduled surgeries in RK Mission Hospital on Saturday, Chief Engineer PHE &WS department Er Toko Jyoti visited the hospital and took stock of the situation. Accompanied by Executive Engineer, Capital Complex Er Tadar Mangku and Assistant Engineer Debia Padang the officials inspected water tank installed inside the hospital premises and later meet Secretary RKM Swami Vishweshananda.

 

The Secretary claimed that no surgery has been cancelled as reported and that hospital is functioning normally. “On Friday four scheduled and two emergency surgeries were successfully conducted. One surgery had to be cancelled due to technical reason while two patients sought discharge and opted to undergo operation at later stage,” said   Swami Vishweshananda. However, he did acknowledge that during initial period of water crisis hospital did struggle to cope. “From July 10 to 12 when pipeline broke down for the first time we faced serious water crisis. However, learning from  experience we installed two tanks from our own resources for OT and OPD section. So question of water crisis does not arise. PHE department has been actively supporting us and even in this time of crisis they have provided sufficient water to the hospital,” he added.

 

 

Chief Engineer Er Toko Jyoti informed that department has given top priority to RK Mission and Tomo Riba hospital. “We have arranged separate line for RKM from Lappu Nallah and Senki park tank sources. There is PHED water tank inside hospital with 4.5 lakh litre capacity. Water is being supplied 24 hours through 100 mm dia pipeline and at present water volume in the tank is 3.00 lakh litres,” said the Chief Engineer. He also said that department has posted regular staff at RKM hospital water tank to monitor the flow of water.

 

Further he appealed to the people not to level unsubstantiated allegation stating that it demoralizes those who are working round the clock to restore the water supply. “We understand that people are facing extremely difficult situation and we truly appreciate the cooperation given to us by the citizens of the capital complex. We all need to understand that no one can fight nature’s fury. Due to dedicated effort of everyone the restoration work is going on full swing and soon we expect to re-start the water supply to Itanagar and Naharlagun,” added Er  Toko Jyoti.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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