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Worse still, residents said that until recently, the hospital worker (sanitary worker) on duty wrote prescriptions and supplied available medicines. A few hospital staff Express spoke to, confirmed that this was indeed the case but now he has been asked to stay away from attending to the patients. According to official data, the Medavakkam health care centre presently handles the most number of deliveries of the forty PHCs, handling 38 deliveries in the last month. Express found the labourward and the Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) ward at the Perumbakkam PHC to be locked. As for maternity care, he said that since the Perumbakkam PHC was new (over six months old), the maternity care services have not been initiated yet.“We have all the necessary infrastructure in place and we will begin maternity care soon,” the official said..