No medical facilities in Thihagoda

by P.P.G.Sugathadasa - Thihagoda group cor.

The want of a government hospital in the Thihagoda Divisional Secretariat Division has been a great drawback to residents of the area.

According to residents even for a minor ailment they have to go to Matara General Hospital or the Kamburupitiya Base Hospital for medical treatment covering a distance of over 10 to 12 kilometres.

Two state dispensaries are currently functioning at Naimbala and Yatiyana in the area of the Thihagoda Divisional Secretariat. But clinical facilities and valuable drugs are hardly available in them patients lament.

They have to buy these medicines at excessive rates from private pharmacies as there is not even a retail outlet of the State Pharmaceutical Corporation in the Thihagoda DS Division.

These matters have already been brought to the attention of the authorities responsible. But no positive action has yet been taken in this regard people said.