Back yard of GMCH stinks with garbage!

By our Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI, June 13: Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), the premier medical institution in the Northeast, has garbage stinking in its back yard, creating health hazards in its surroundings. The blame for such an act, however, goes much to the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC).

The responsibility of garbage disposal in Guwahati lies with the GMC which continues to hit headlines for its shoddy works. The shoddy garbage disposal by the civic body makes people suffer.

Dimbeswar Neog Path from ABC links the GS Road with the road that leads one to the GMCH Hostel Road via the GMCH morgue. At the spot of the morgue, this link road runs as a divider between the morgue and the GMCH. This spot stinks round the clock, making is difficult for people who happen to pass through it. This link road is often used by people since the GMCH morgue is located there.

Between the morgue and the GMCH, garbage is thrown in the open near the link road for the GMC to dispose them off. However, the GMC does not dispose the garbage properly, and leaves heaps of it in the site. This is the reason why the place is filled a stance round the clock.

The Sentinel has brought this issue to the light of both GMCH and GMC authorities earlier with the publication of a report and a self-introductory picture, but to little avail.

A ray of hope was gleamed in October 2015 when the civic body started the construction of a dumping ground for the GMCH near the morgue. As schedule, the construction of the dumping ground was supposed to have been completed by December 2015. True to the Congress regime’s style of working in the past 15 years, only a few posts are seen erected at the site now. Nobody knows when the construction of the dumping ground will be completed. Had the construction of the dumping ground been completed in time, the problem of stinking garbage in the area could have been solved by now.

Talking to The Sentinel, GMCH Superintendent Dr. BK Bezbaruah said: “There’s a plan to take away the garbage from the dumping ground with the help of a network of pipes after its disposal. However, the dumping ground is yet to be completed. However, all the garbage seen at the spot is not of the GMCH. Some people staying nearby or shops also dump their garbage there. We’ll get rid of this problem as and when the construction of the dumping ground will be completed.”

At a time when change, as promised by the BJP in the run-up to the recent Assembly election in the State, has started to get reflected some areas there is every reason to hope for the better that the new GDD Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who happens to the Health Minister of the State also, will do all to rid the people of the stinking garbage.