Inside Jhansi's 'hospital': Where patients are replaced by livestock

In Jhansi’s Chelra village, a government hospital lies abandoned — no doctors, no medicines, just livestock and filth.

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00:00This isn't a cattle shed. It's a government hospital in Jhasi's Chailra village. No doctors,

00:09no staff, just broken toilets, filth and rusting junk. In Jhasi, the Naveen Health Centre resembles

00:15an animal shelter with goats, sheep and even buffaloes freely roaming the compound for three

00:20to four months now. Instead of medicines, there are stacks of cow dung. Instead of patients,

00:24there is livestock. Toilets have no doors and windows are either broken or gone. Locals

00:32say doctors hardly ever show up and the facility opens just once or twice a week, if at all.

00:37Left with no option, locals of Chailra either turn to costly private clinics or travel to

00:45distant villages for basic treatment. As per Dr. Sudhakar Pandey, CMO Jhasi, they

00:54encroachment at the Chailra Health Centre is yet to be investigated. Despite efforts under

00:59government schemes like the National Health Mission and Ayushman Bharat to boost rural health

01:03care, ground realities show that gaps in access, quality and manpower still run deep.