So they had to call their parents to seek their help. I was really shocked to know about the various problems our children are facing in the Government-run hostel. Some of the problems include water shortage, inadequate power, defunct geysers, broken taps, broken doors, dirty coolers, etc. To add to this, students are forced to use the lone bus for travelling from hostel to Goa Medical College and back.
Nursing students have to wait at GMC and bask in hot sun for the lone bus service. They reach the hostel only by 1.40 pm and their lectures start at 2 pm.
Sometimes they don’t get time to have lunch and at times the food is over when they reach late in the mess. If two buses were provided this problem would have been solved.
How do we expect our children to stay in hostel with inadequate water and electricity supply? After tediously doing their clinical duties in GMC and attending to patients, do we expect them to sleep without taking bath?
How are they going to study with erratic and restricted power supply? BSc Nursing is of four years and not of six months and one year.
If our Government can invest heavily to boost tourism and on mega events in Goa, then why not maintain the NIE Girls Hostel at Bambolim? If Government primary schools and high schools even with less number of students [which are about to close down] are renovated, then why not this Nursing Girls Hostel? On behalf of our nursing students and their parents, I earnestly request our Health Minister and other concerned authorities at least on humanitarian grounds to look into this matter and solve the problems at the hostel at the earliest.
