Water supply of Barisal Mother and Child Welfare Centre has remained totally suspended for the last 10 days as the transformer on its compound has gone out of order after being hit by thunderbolt.
Ten admitted pregnant women were left in the center facing the crisis. Officials of the public health engineering department visited the spot but not solved the crisis till filling this report.
The 20-bed Mother and Child Welfare Centre was set up on BM School Road of the city in the year of 1964 on 446 decimal land of FWVTI.
Every day about 50 mothers and children visit here for health services. To ensure smooth training and health services, the authorities set up a separate transformer on the compound. But during heavy rainfall and  thunderbolt, the transformer was damaged here on June 26.
It is the second transformer damaged here in the last one month. After that electricity and water supply were totally stopped here.
The authorities announced suspension of the operation and delivery service of the pregnant women until further notice. During a visit to the centre,  it was found that all the patients have already left as the authorities locked the operation theater.
Bathrooms and toilets of the centre have remained totally out of use.
All the bed of the centers were empty as patients left the hospital facing absence of the water. All types of operation remained  suspended here for the last 10 days due to absence of water and alternative power supply.  
Dr Harun Or Rashid,  in-charge of the Family Planning Department, said that about 30,000 liters of water is needed here per day but now supply is nil.
Dr Rashid said he informed the facts to the Health Engineering Department several times but the problem was not solved.  He admitted that the situation of the center is now horrible. Rita Saha and Bebi Rani, family welfare volunteers of the centre,  said that they were running EPI activities using ice box, but mothers were not allowed.
President of Conscious Citizen Committee (CCC), Barisal  unit, Prof Moazzem Hossain said that this 20-bed centre at the city center could serve the pregnant mothers better if every thin runs properly with transparency, accountability and sufficient manpower, medicine and equipment.
But presently the centre is running totally in a sub-human condition.
Dr. Mizanur Rahman, member secretary Barisal Bivag Unnayan and Sartho Sangrakkhan Committee, said this is a decision of only half an hour’s meeting if the authorities fill the pain o0f the pregnant mothers and children. Here the authorities are doing business with the patients by sending them to private clinics.