Celebrating Doctor’s Day, the association said they were taking villages from each taluka under the IMA Aao Gaon Chalen initiative and conducting awareness camps involving doctors and members of the association.
Speaking to media persons, IMA Goa President Dr Prasad Netravalkar said, “All the members of IMA have been asked to take a pledge reinstating their commitment towards the overall healthcare benefit of the nation and working while upholding the highest standard of ethics.”
They have outlined plans for over 28 villages in the State with medical professionals conducting camps and distributing medical kits on Sundays.
Among the various programmes conducted, the association has taken to providing medical concessions to the elderly, cleanliness camps for labourers, and creating meditation cells as well as notifying the Directorate of Health Services (DHS) on every case of TB and cancer.
Despite claiming that Goa registered the minimal cases of female foeticide, IMA is also looking to adopt the Beti Bachao Beti Padao programme along with the Swaach Bharat campaign. Eradicating discrimination against the girl child, offering special privileges to women delivering a girl child and providing girl children suffering from complex congenital heart diseases and who can’t afford surgery help are some of the associations other initiatives.
Talking about the proposed biomedical waste disposal plant, Netravalkar said he along with officials from DHS, Department of Science and Technology and the Goa Medical College (GMC) inspected the proposed site in Kundaim and this may take a year to start functioning.
“There is a possibility of an epidemic in case biomedical wastes land in the wrong hands. This state-of-the-art treatment plant is necessary as the incinerator at GMC is small,” he said. He mentioned that the government had studied the example of plants in Tamil Nadu and Kerala that are successfully treating biomedical waste and making profits.
