A small room inside the panchayat office in Amballur, a tiny village near Vaniyambadi in Tirupattur district, has been functioning as a sub-health centre of the village for decades.
The centre has a village health nurse (VHN), who can attend to simple ailments. Villagers, mostly farmers, have to travel to Vaniyambadi, around 13 km from the village, for medical emergencies, including pregnancy-related complications, as it is the nearest town that has a government taluk hospital.
Their ordeal will soon come to an end as K. Dinakaramohan, 75, a farmer and an inhabitant of the village, has donated 10 cents (4,340 square feet) of his land for the construction of a government health centre in the village. A gift deed was registered at the sub-registrar office in Vaniyambadi a few days ago, with the land being donated to the Department of Health of the State government.
